On 18 March 2011 11:22, Holly Cummins <[email protected]> wrote: > zoe slattery <[email protected]> wrote on 03/18/2011 10:28:32 AM: > >> +1 I would like to see committers elected because of doc contributions > > [cut for length] > > The downside of this is that Alasdair's and Charles's experience of > submitting and applying a patch doesn't seem to have been very smooth. > It's hard to say if that's because the CMS process just doesn't work well > for patches, or they just did it wrong. :) > > If the patch process genuinely doesn't work so well for doc contributions > we may decide that facilitating doc contributions is more important than > facilitating new committers - or we may not, of course, since enabling > doc-driven committers sounds like a good thing to me as well.
It's very easy for committers to make changes using CMS, but for contributors (inlcuding those who don't have an ASF id) they have to check out the site, configure the build env, build it (instructions on our site) and submit a patch. Then the committer applying the patch also needs the full site checked out and configured to build. I think that process could be improved on, but that would need changes in CMS a) to allow anyone to make changes in a sandbox and create a patch for a committer b) for a committer to be able to take that patch and apply it. So I don't think the patch process doesn't work (unless you can elaborate), just that it's long winded. > > (If we can identify a better way of submitting patches, of course, what > we'll need is someone to submit an patch for our docs pages with > instructions. :) ) > > Holly > > > > > > > Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU > > > > > >
