Hi Russell, Thanks a lot for the links! Will go over these and, hopefully, be able to set up a clone of the repository locally.
Best Regards, April On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Russell Dickenson < [email protected]> wrote: > On 29 July 2010 07:20, April Gonzales <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm April from Cebu City, Philippines. I hold a degree in Computer > > [snip] > > > For now, I'll proceed with setting up the tools I need for contributing > to > > the documentation project. Please let me know if there is anything I can > do. > > > > Best Regards, > > April Gonzales > > > April, > > I'm sure your help will be welcomed by those who already contribute to > GNOME's documentation. The change to Mallard means that there's plenty > of work to be done. I am only an observer at the moment but hope to > contribute at some point in the future. > > To get comfortable with git, I suggest you read at least the > following. Another project that I contribute documentation to also > uses git as its versioning system and as a non-developer it took me > some time to understand how to use it for my work. > > Official git tutorial > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html > > Git for Designers > http://hoth.entp.com/output/git_for_designers.html > > The second document should, I suggest, be titled "Git for > Non-developers". It's perhaps the best explanation I have seen of git > for anyone who does not work with source code but still needs to use > git. > > I haven't done formal reviews of git documentation and have not > purchased any git books so I don't know if they might also be > worthwhile. Start with the basics, though, and go from there. > > From what I have seen on the GNOME docs ML, the emphasis is on > contributions, not knowledge of git. > > > Regards, > > Russell Dickenson >
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