Author: crossley
Date: Sat Aug 6 20:38:05 2005
New Revision: 230625
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=230625&view=rev
Log:
Add paragraph about onlist discussion.
Modified:
forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/committed.xml
Modified: forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/committed.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/committed.xml?rev=230625&r1=230624&r2=230625&view=diff
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--- forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/committed.xml (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/site-author/content/xdocs/committed.xml Sat Aug 6 20:38:05
2005
@@ -110,11 +110,16 @@
nobody has any objection or anything to add. It is only if people
respond that you need to discuss further. Once the discussion reaches
consensus then coding can accelerate. Once you have implicit or explicit
- approval for your contribution just go ahead and do it. Be sure to
+ approval for your contribution, just go ahead and do it. Be sure to
document what you have done whilst you are at it. Without
documentation (comments in code, mailing list discussion and user
docs) your code is next to useless - nobody knows it is there and
nobody knows how it works.</p>
+ <p>Online discussion is important for community building.
+ Offline discussion and one-to-one conversations deny the
+ community the chance to become involved and lead to solutions
+ that are not ideal. So please do as much discussion as possible
+ on the dev or user mailing list.</p>
</section>
<section id="references">
<title>References</title>
