[Lumiera] the "Contribute" tutorial

[Brian Rytel]

Hermann wrote:
"As it turned out, some years ago, Brian R. had re-written parts of that
page in a more polished way;"


As I was mentioned by name, I thought I'd let everyone know I'm still
around. I'm glad to see some rekindled activity on the mailinglist as
it was very quiet for awhile there. I'll set some time aside in the
next night or two to see if I can make any contributions to the
website.

Thanks,
B.J.M.R.


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Ichthyostega <prg at ichthyostega.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Benny and the others,
>
> currently I'm doing a lot of clean-up, since my intention is to cut a new
> pre-release, and then to check and rebuild all the Debian/Ubuntu packages.
> While at this, I've noticed that we have a real mess with our various newbie
> and "contributing" pages. There is much redundancy, and, still worse, quite
> some slightly outdated information.
>
> At this point I'd like to thank you for re-writing the tutorial
> "Contributing to Lumiera" -- you turned that into a clear step-by-step
> introduction, including the initial Git survival skills. I've put that
> page now online, without altering much. The only part I reworked slightly
> is the description of the build process. Since there is a dedicated and lengthy
> tutorial covering this task, I've shortened the explanatory part of your text
> slightly, while adding the cross link to the other tutorial at the start of
> that chapter. Besides, I've filled in some proposals for possible contribution;
> basically just a bulleted list with some topics, which I consider fairly
> independent from the stuff currently in work.
>
> http://www.lumiera.org/documentation/user/tutorials/contributing.html
>
> Next there is the top-level "Contribute" page. This one probably escaped our
> attention. It was a hodgepodge of various writing attempts, covering the same
> topics multiple times, and clumsily at times. Thus I radically shortened the
> text. As it turned out, some years ago, Brian R. had re-written parts of that
> page in a more polished way; so I mostly used his wording, but I tried to
> condense some aspects.
>
> http://www.lumiera.org/contribute.html
>
> maybe you could just skim these pages -- hopefully I didn't make any
> gross mistakes ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Hermann
>
>
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>
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