Could I make a request on substantive changes to lessons.

This change has been 'interesting' when we are in the middle of a SWC workshop. 
Having downloaded and tested the previous version, got to the workshop to 
discover that half the material was missing. This led to some scrambling.


So please - if a lesson is being substantially rewritten (rather than just 
cosmetic/minor changes) then place it under a different name for a period of 
time (at least a fortnight, preferably a month) until it can be accepted as the 
new definitive version with time for scheduled workshops to adapt/adopt it.

It is most unfair/unprofessional to expect instructors to be responding on the 
hoof to changes underfoot.



Dr David Martin
Lecturer in Bioinformatics
College of Life Sciences
University of Dundee



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To: Christina Koch; Software
Subject: Re: [Discuss] changes merged to shell-novice lesson

Thanks very much for your work on this, Christina - really appreciate it.
- Greg

On 2016-01-09 3:54 PM, Christina Koch wrote:
Hi everyone,

Heads-up to those of you teaching in the next few weeks - my fairly significant 
rewrite of the files-directories piece of the shell-novice lesson has finally 
been merged, so things will look different going forward.  We probably didn't 
catch *all* the bugs in PR review, so please let us know when you encounter 
problems - either file an issue or issue a PR and I'll try to prioritize and 
merge those.

I'll also have Maneesha email upcoming instructors just to make sure everyone 
hears about the change.

Cheers,
Christina

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