On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:43:16PM +0000, Jessica Tomechak wrote: > Hi guys, > Not arguing against it, but I would be very much interested in your reasoning > behind why having docs in a separate repo makes them easier to work on. What > have we experienced since this time last year which has led us to reverse the > original decision to keep docs in the same repo with code? > > And having mentioned this, also thanks to y'all for taking care of doing the > actual split and setting up the new repo. > > Jessica T.
Documentation has a different lifecycle from the code, since docs aren't usually complete anywhere near feature complete. Also, having it in a different repo will help contributors more easily work with the documentation. We are seeing a number of new folks in the community that want to help on that front. -chip
