Thanks Trevor; when I'm more awake I'll go through what you've written and understand it :-)
On a more general point (which I think is still appropriate for the list): Once I've understood it, I should document it somehow. My instinct is to add a README file in the repo next to the images (yes, AIUI it would be live on the website, but wouldn't be linked from anywhere), but does anybody have a better suggestion? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: W. Trevor King [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 April 2015 21:57 To: Waldman, Simon M Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion Subject: Re: [Discuss] How to add things to the SWC webspace On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 01:33:55PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: > In cases like this (badge graphics), I'd suggest the Git history as a > useful place to store the creation routine. We currently have > messages like “Adding helper badge from 'bc' repo [3]”, but that would > be more useful if it had a message body like: > > Created with: > > $ ./bin/badge-create.py … So it's a bit more work this way, but “copied from bc” is enough to find the source. Looking through swcarpentry/bc for stuff touching files like 'badge*png' turns up: * Initial creation (maybe copied from swcarpentry/boot-camps?) in d5d75d1 (Initializing template for Software Carpentry bootcamp home pages, 2013-07-14). * Edits in 96ef9a4 (Updated badges, 2013-08-18, #14 [1]). * Removal in bf9e6c1 (Only two bootcamps ever included instructor bios…, 2013-12-02, #189 [2]). Preston includes the SVG source in #14, so that's probably enough source for you to create a new badge along the same style. He also changes some comments in the SVGs from “Created with Inkscape” to “Generator: Adobe Illustrator…”, which hints at the process ;). Cheers, Trevor [1]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/14 [2]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/pull/189 -- 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 ----- We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
