On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:08:32AM -0400, Bennet Fauber wrote:
> It seems odd to me, as an outsider, to be downloading things from a
> pull request instead of a repo.  If it's still a pull request, it
> isn't done, is it?  If it is, then why is it still a request instead
> of pulled?

It may not be pulled because the maintainers are still trying to reach
a consensus.  That doesn't stop you from making an executive decision
and merging it for your own workshop.

> For beginners looking for a shell lesson, I am not sure that
> expecting them to know what a pull request even is is entirely
> reasonable.

Right, with our current bc repo, you'd want someone on the SWC side to
set this up for you.

> Perhaps that github repo isn't actually for students, attendees, or
> people out exploring, it's just for the instructors and
> contributors?  If that's the case, perhaps a beginner-oriented
> distribution site for materials would make it clearer and easier?

With per-lesson repositories, this would be easier [1].  Just point
folks at the shell-lesson repository.  That's what I've been
advocating for #716 [2,3,4].

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/102
[2]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/716#issuecomment-55541505
[3]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/716#issuecomment-55592588
[4]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/716#issuecomment-55930261

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