Re: Issue 1463 in lilypond: Writing metadata to the PDF file

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, um 23:58:20 schrieb Graham Percival:
> There's five questions in my mind.
> 
> 1) should we reject a patch which does not have complete
> documention?  (IMNSHO: no)

I would word it differently:
We encourage (although not absolutely require) each developer to write basic 
documentation for a new feature.

> 3) once a code patch has been accepted, should we reject any doc
> patch written by the programmer?  (no, of course not!  If a
> programmers *wants* to write docs, then of course that's great!

Okay, then expect some patches for my new features in the 2.13 release.

> 4) once a code patch has been accepted, should we immediately add
> a doc-issue to the tracker for missing docs?  (this one is
> arguable; at the moment I don't see the point of doing this, but
> if somebody is very excited about some particular piece of missing
> docs and enjoys playing with the google tracker, I'm not going to
> stop them)

I would prefer a new issue so that no new features are missed.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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