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 -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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