Are there plans afoot to tag releases to help prevent this pain? I wouldn't want to work on the development branch of something in production.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:21 AM, David Martin (Staff) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf > of Greg Wilson <[email protected]> > *Sent:* 10 January 2016 02:28 > *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 > > -- > Christina Koch - Research Computing Facilitator, > University of Wisconsin - Madison, Center for High Throughput Computing > Advanced Computing Initiative; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; ACI-REF > [email protected] // (608) 316 - 4041 // tinyurl.com/ChristinaCalendarCHTC > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing > [email protected]http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > > The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- [email protected]
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