Awesome - thanks, Lars!

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Lars Francke <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks Larry,
>
> I only have minor things, formatting and typos etc. so I'll just do a patch
> against 0.7.0.
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:24 PM, larry mccay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Lars -
> >
> > That period between a release and when the next version is copied to a
> new
> > directory does happen to be a slightly awkward spot.
> > Generally, yes, you copy the 0.7.0 version to an 0.8.0 directory and
> > rebuild it all with 'ant'.
> >
> > Now, if you have a contribution for the docs then you can certainly do it
> > in 0.7.0 - as long as it is for a feature that exists in 0.7.0.
> > Then when someone else copies it to 0.8.0 it will move with it.
> >
> > We treat the current release docs as a living breathing documentation
> > rather than freezing it with the release. This way we can fix
> > things in it while working on the next release.
> >
> > It might make sense to add the copying of the directory to the next
> release
> > as part of the release process. Though fixes to the docs for a recent
> > release are easier when it is the latest version in the docs too. It is
> > something to consider anyway.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > --larry
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Lars Francke <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Just a quick question about your documentation.
> > >
> > > I see that it's in SVN and versioned but what if I want to contribute a
> > fix
> > > now for the next version? Generate a patch for the latest (0.7.0) or
> copy
> > > the docs over to a 0.8.0 directory and make my change there? Or
> something
> > > different entirely.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lars
> > >
> >
>

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