From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Helping on Git development Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:50:13 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4o0dreiy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vehzjugdz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110914231427.GA5611@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vd3f2snox.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110915000851.GA6238@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, "Eduardo D'Avila" To: Andrew Ardill X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 15 17:50:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ECn-0005sr-7G for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:50:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934090Ab1IOPuU (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:50:20 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:57578 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934067Ab1IOPuT (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:50:19 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977F54DA7; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:50:16 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=/C1FW7FA747jLKdd/j2bIECR4+s=; b=G7O3/9 /9MFbf31UCVnFU4Y6nPWNMrNY793U29rMfp+YLkHJSHLXi4dQ50HiXQIJW9Be+61 IiZn5HEqp5ZUy9pRclmgdd0vR+KOErkJ9eM2M1+ZZUE5D3buaB/MgXTwt4vs5J4q m9Ujh0XQ+2COx8I967scdeJ8Jbnp3CM8jIgH8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Wr9B8G2LSrfrC7Ev+aCirGAd7nFdnzLr tK/+j+64Phd5Pkyvoy0Hb0MM3Cehb/Cx1m3+DNrxP3Fiz9l8DIHBrRjoio+w/Mhl +hJ/tGGSalOvxxwfqHMkKJYEWyeNOB9AvQlvP8X2jLcq9xlsqMLoAEXGvYvUc8z2 qSngSclMWWY= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD364DA6; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:50:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 217324DA4; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:50:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andrew Ardill's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:24:22 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 674E6D86-DFB2-11E0-82C4-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andrew Ardill writes: >> I am moderately averse to hardcoding that URL that is guaranteed not to >> survive the maintainer change in our README file. The howto/maintain-git >> document mentions the periodical "A note from the maintainer" posting to >> the list that has the same text, which is a more appropriate reference. > > Would a link to the wiki be more appropriate? Perhaps even a 'getting > started' page that collates information like this? > ... > When kernel.org comes back online I may have a go at creating such a > page. Any thoughts? "Getting started" that describes how they got started, collectively maintained by people who got started recently, may serve as a good guide for people who follow. And if it is done as a wiki, you are free to create and update without asking permission from the community ;-).