Re: contributing instructions are misleading!

[James]

On 07/12/13 17:15, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm infuriated.  A new contributor had turned up, read CG and sent his
> patch to the "frogs" mailing list, which, as far as i know, is dead
> (and since lilynet is down, i'm not sure it's actually working at
> all).
>
> This is absolutely unacceptable.  Not only is our contributing process
> complicated, but the instructions we give are misleading!
>
> I'm so angry that I'll actually go through the CG and update the
> instructions right now, and will push directly to staging.  I don't
> want to waste time on discussions this time, and i dont' actually have
> time to go through formal review.  Any comments and adjustments are
> welcome - please just send follow-up patches.
>
> If anyone doesn't like what i'm going to do, please protest swiftly.
>
> best,
> Janek
>
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Just make sure you do a make doc before pushing. Else this just screws 
up the whole patch testing/merge staging if you break something. I 
cannot tell you how many times someone has broken doc because they 
weren't careful and just assumed a 'make' is good enough.

I don't know why you cannot just make a patch and run it through the 
normal process - if only for testing - I usually am around in a 24 hour 
period to test patches if no one else is.

James