Trevor, On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM, W. Trevor King <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I think I'd interpret that as, yes, it's more for insiders. I'm not sure how many outsiders would think to look in pending pull requests for the latest material. I looked in there once, and it wasn't pretty. No offense. >> 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]. Well, one of the outsiders (that would be me) thinks that splitting the repos up so that the materials for students are in their own repos, so that their interface to them is clean and appropriate for beginners, attendees, and the random exploring types who run across the materials by accident is clearer to that audience, is a really good idea. Let me know where the ballot box is. I know how to vote early and often. ;-) -- bennet _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
