Ok, so Michael has thrown down the gauntlet: "Now please stop the damn 
'thank you' thing, and contribute something."

Circumstances prevent me from contributing much in the way of code but 
y'all know I have a passion for decent documentation. I have made a 
number of contributions to the Wiki and to the distributed LinuxCNC 
documentation.

The process I used last year to contribute to the docs was horribly 
inefficient. I would first find problems, then document them as to 
source file, line, and the change to be made. Then I'd fire off emails 
to John Thornton who would fire up his trusty editor and, file by file, 
line by line, first locate what I was talking about, and then make the 
corrections he agreed with (which he mostly did; thanks, John).

Frankly, I'd rather just edit the document source files and be done with 
it. It's something I can do at odd moments during the day as I see 
problems in the pdf/html results.

I see two possibilities for doing this in an organized way:

1) create my own public git repository, edit and post files to it after 
pulling from the central repository, and announce their availability to 
y'all. It would then be up to 'someone' to pull them and merge them in 
the central repository.

or

2) get push privilege to the central repository. It would be super if 
git allowed for restriction of push privilege to the ./docs subset, 
since that's all I need/want, but I'm not aware that it does.

And the answer is...?

Regards,
Kent


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