[Meego-kernel] wiki proposal: git for starters

[Nishanth Menon]

Foster, Dawn M had written, on 10/22/2010 10:10 AM, the following:
> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> 
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I guess Greg beating us up pushed me to create a wiki for our community 
>> [1], which gives yet another "getting started" for sending git patches. 
>> It is meant to give our budding developer community a slightly collated 
>> view of how this "git patch thing" actually works. All of this details 
>> are already out there in the net, Just collated it in my 
>> non-native-english-speaking language (apology if I tend to ramble on in 
>> it OR messed up my spellcheck and punctuation :D)..
> 
> I just sent it to the MeeGo tech writer for a review of the english bits. 
> She'll make sure all of the commas end up in the right place and correct
> any other errors.
> 
Thank you. yep, that will definitely help, though I suggest we wait for 
us code monkeys finish messing it up before cleaning it for posterity :)

>> [1] http://wiki.meego.com/Kernel_patch_guidelines/git_for_starters
> 
> Thanks so much for doing this! I know there has been some confusion from
> new contributors about how this process works, so having something
> nicely documented should help.
yep, I kinda felt it was unfair to beat up contributors for not knowing 
a language which is not documented clearly :(.. I guess in a way we are 
to blame as well :(..

> 
> It would be great if Greg, Alan or Arjan could do a quick technical review
> just to catch any possible typos in the technical instructions.

Looking back at the wiki, we probably need to add more stuff to it - 
examples of how not to post patches, contents should not contain mixed 
up changes etc.. dunno exactly how we'd go about it, but I guess we'd 
all need some help sometime :)


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Regards,
Nishanth Menon