Hi Zoe, I will remake a test to see if I experience again the same issue using CMS tool. If this is the case, I will check with you.
Regards, Charles On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:08 PM, zoe slattery <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/03/2011 12:39, Jeremy Hughes wrote: >> >> 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. > > This is true and I can see its a bit of a PITA. >> >> Then the committer applying the patch >> also needs the full site checked out and configured to build. > > This is not true. You should just be able to check out, apply patch, commit > and use the CMS tooling to verify. >> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > >
