Yeah, this would be ideal for sure but given the resources we have in
general and the resources in the past we have dedicated to making life
easier for the developer rather than the user i don't really see it
happening. So as it stands now the "stable" developer guide seems more like
a maintenance burden more than anything else.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Any objections to removing the "stable" developer guide link from the
> docs
> > page? It is not like the user guide in that we need to maintain multiple
> > branches of it. And actually currently the stable one is out of sync and
> > missing some content.
>
> Works for me. What about people really wanting to develop on 2.1.x?
> Some sort of redirect to the trunk guide could be interesting.
>
> Generally speaking there are two kinds of developers:
> - those that contribute to the project. They know trunk is the only place
> where a commit must always be, unless you want to lose it at the
> next series. They don't need a "stable" developer guide
> - there is the lot of developers customizing GS for their own use, which
> often stay on the stable series. These people often do not contribute
> squat to GeoServer, so we could say we don't care.... or we could make
> it easy for them to get in, hoping that someone sees the light and tries
> to actually contribute back (those that do not plan to contribute back
> anything anyways, well, they don't exist to me).
>
> Long story short, it boils down to whether the dev guide has strong
> ties to the branch (I guess it does not atm?) and whether we want
> to reach out for potential new devs (though I admin the return potential
> is often low).
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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