On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Aymeric Augustin < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Russell, > > It seemed to me that this page wasn't nearly as good an introduction to > contributing to Django as the contributing guide from the official docs, so > I trimmed it and pointed to the docs instead. > > In fact, I started by removing incorrect or outdated information — for > instance, the workflow described in the page dated back to the pre-git era, > replacing get_absolute_url appeared to be the main current project while no > one has worked on it for years, etc. A few minutes later there was so > little left that I simply rewrote the page. > > Generally speaking, I don't believe we'll ever manage to keep the wiki > sufficiently accurate and up to date to make it useful. Last year I tried > to look for spam links (with a script) and scrub them, but there were so > many that I gave up. In my opinion, the viable alternative to our > self-hosted wiki is called the World Wide Web :-) > > Feel free to restore and perhaps update the previous content. I believe it > did more harm than good, but as long as it remains clear that you need to > authenticate before you can file a ticket, we'll be all right! > > Hi Aymeric, Your reasoning makes sense - I can't argue that some of the content there was a bit stale. However I think there's a middle ground - that particular page is the landing page for people who want to contribute, so it needs a bit more than a curt "get thyself a github account". I'll work on improving what's there. Russ %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAJxq84-qGpJL6vS4YQgVj0ERkM_9zkPm9aQTriKehtWMhEi7pQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
