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On 3/30/18 12:49 PM, charlie arehart wrote: > 1) If you (or anyone following along and responsible for that > FrontPage) are open to more feedback, your second step pointed me > to the section there about, "If you do decide to contribute". The > next words there say "you will need to create a Wiki login name", > but it doesn't say how to do that. Now, sure, one might figure it > out by thinking to click the login button at the top of the page, > which then offers a link to create one. But it could be quite > helpful if it just went ahead and offered that link under those > words "create a Wiki login name", going to > https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FrontPage?action=newaccount. :-) Sounds like a reasonable improvement. > 2) Anyway, I did that, and the sentence then goes on to say that > we should then send that new login name to the dev or users list, > asking to be added to the ContributorsGroup. Now, I realize I > should (and will) join the dev list also, but since the discussion > has started here and may seem to come "out of left field" from me > there, I will offer here that the login name is CharlieArehart. > Let me know, folks involved, if you prefer I share that on the dev > list instead for some reason (in which case, maybe that wording > that says "or Tomcat Users" should be removed). As always, I'm just > trying to help, not to criticize. Added. You should be able to "contribute" to the wiki, now. IMHO, the wiki isn't a great place to do ... anything, really. We have a few pages that grew and grew (like the FAQ/HOWTO pages) and that's all there really is. I think it would be better to re-organize that information into a better format. I'm not entirely sure what that better format might be. > 3) And to your final points, yep, I would be only interested in > contributing to the docs (and happily) but not code. I truly am > just a user of Tomcat--and other Java app servers. Though I've > helped people troubleshoot issues with them for 10+ years, I've not > written a line of production Java code since before then, so I > won't be nearly as helpful with that! You'll still need to get the source from Subversion[1] or Git[2], make edits, and submit patches/pull requests. While it's fine to post to the list and say "on this page there is a missing 'm'", it's not okay to say "you should re-word these paragraphs to say this:" and then post a whole bunch of text. A patch/PR is the way to do that. > And I do see (from Mark's link to the doc repo, in another > doc-related thread yesterday) that the project uses SVN. I'll > start getting my head back into that (vs Git) in the meantime. :-) You can still use Git. See [2]. > 4) Finally, thanks for the link to the whoweare page. That was > helpful. I see now that you and Mark, who had been contributing on > this thread, as well as you both and Christopher and Felix who > were participating in my other thread about doc contribution, are > all committers. Thanks very much for all you guys (and others here) > do. Again, I just want to help, as a long-time user. > > I'm also a voracious reader of docs, and love to help others > leverage them, and so I do often see opps for improvement in them. > Of course, I appreciate that not every suggestion would be > universally appreciated, and so I trust that the committers would > help temper my enthusiasm where needed, such that I remain "more > helpful than not". :-) > > Looking forward to getting involved. Welcome to the community. - -chris [1] https://tomcat.apache.org/svn.html [2] https://tomcat.apache.org/svn.html#Git_Mirror -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAlq+cPMACgkQHPApP6U8 pFg/DRAAw7Y620lOY6LiKGwh5BSIt8AHOudWLmL4JY9RrKWxu2OlPt5deSQPVl5q 2d/rA+GFOqW4JlFHewq1+g9UmAXo+ys2GyG8rijO4ESP45puLm404jYzCff4C+sh s6FFMYxcUPyGPGfHAT7+IvgIKVagxNb+aZ+M40YFrlHUFO4HFQzRP4EcZcTJFoIa iSGJLJDalJEWafRv5+bOYjcHGb6IjjRMp/ifC5rvH8AeOLRo3tZK/+MuTVS47S+4 px+IZ4YUMpKuJ+jt9SjFrt7FmfNU5xJxuzrYwluPxnHSbxJ72ECVEUYSCKVNCkup DZVI1euL7n+eMvnlERWwrTZbYgVMG9YakXMK+wPa3V1E1YZuj2pDETZH5qSlneq9 gnjLFgFTs/hPMIx46iqpw3X2sSntZNpUVZx5AHfloOGCiNsQ41zuzpMF6C0NcgXX UfaQLmDzso53qb0wHZ+33svSYv/P/+DyRc7yZ9WsSNVwfaqexa2re0dVrBM+iy5A dFH0YOW1qFhZeU9xXaeNBlkMBESrNrrYaf9PhBMVC+KcGIzb2mxKtFU9RJW49PKi KI8u8cc8DbIQ3VlCC6a4fwWwNKCENrGkNGzgqMLWnlFlH76ma6CV0EKc0IoUNM0h wt4R6LYPZ2Q7khPCKXf684U1q1eH1XuSotaKK4gqiUkedy3xZTU= =4CWW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
