From a conceptual perspective, one of the things that seems a bit convulted 
across the project is that there aren't clear documentation buckets for the 
different roles: Cordova committer, Cordova contributor, Cordova user. There is 
some really good content, but it's a bit fractured across the cordova-docs.git, 
README.md in other repos, wiki, etc. Maybe I just look at things through 
role-colored glasses.

Your googledrive doc looks like great content for the Cordova committer. This 
suggestion may be growing the scope from what you intended, but would it make 
sense to build a "Cordova committer" bucket and start to consolidate docs for 
that role in that place starting with this one, such as moving similar content 
out of the wiki, etc?

What you've written here I would categorize as process or governance. Another 
question I'd ask is if the process/governance docs should go in the source code 
repo or someplace else? Assuming they will be branched and version-tagged 
similar to the code, that puts them the same timeline as the code. But I don't 
typically think of branching and snapshotting process/governance docs and 
keeping around old copies, because process/governance is constantly evolving 
and generally new process/governance can be mixed with old code because it is 
infrastructure-related, instead of function-in-code related. So perhaps the 
question here is (assuming this md goes into git) should that git not get 
branched/snapshot'd, and instead publish only HEAD, because you always use the 
process/governance described in HEAD? In which case, a wiki is not a bad 
versioning model, assuming you can render what you want.

-- Marcel Kinard

On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org> wrote:

> I wrote up the new git workflows into a doc intended for inclusion in the
> Cordova Documentation (it provides much nicer formatting than the wiki).
> You can check it out here:
> 
> https://googledrive.com/host/0B8sLcyOAEX-XUHAxNXhISE5rTTg/guide_contributing_index.md.html
> 
> Please let me know if you spot any problems or have any questions. If
> people like the idea of a contributor entry in the Guide, I'll commit this
> into edge.
> 
> Braden

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