> One thing that would be useful is to document this somewhere the instructors > are likely to see it, since the fix is really easy if the instructors are > aware of it when they see the problem.
In terms of places to record this kind of info, I might suggest our long-term, imperfect solution of this Wiki page - https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/wiki/Configuration-Problems-and-Solutions For new instructors, this page is often a good place to start when folks in your workshops run into installation problems. Best, Justin -- Justin Kitzes Berkeley Institute for Data Science University of California, Berkeley [email protected] On Dec 1, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Ethan White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/01/2015 03:04 PM, Ben Marwick wrote: >> In a quiet moment after the workshop, I read through the previous >> discussions on this list and did a test with one of the learners. We >> determined that our windows learners simply hadn't properly followed the git >> installation instructions on the workshop webpage. Perhaps they were >> careless, perhaps they were a bit overwhelmed by the unfamiliar options. > This has been reported elsewhere as well [1], so I think it's definitely an > issue that we should try to work on improving. > > One thing that would be useful is to document this somewhere the instructors > are likely to see it, since the fix is really easy if the instructors are > aware of it when they see the problem. > >> We wondered about the possibility of bundling git into the SWC installer and >> setting these options so that the user doesn't have to be so attentive to >> changing the installation options (cf. a similar suggestion by Trevor King >> here: >> https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/issues/31#issuecomment-133740208). > This would be great. If someone has the time to try to figure out how to > implement it we'd welcome a PR. > > It's also possible this setting is stashed in a config file somewhere and if > we could track that down we could change it post installation using the SWC > installer. > > [1] > https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/pull/235#issuecomment-158941357 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
