2010/4/17 Graham Percival <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 06:01:30PM +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: >> 2010/4/17 Graham Percival <[email protected]>: >> > We had a week without doc work due to constantly-changing >> > repositories. If you weren't active during that week, then you >> > wouldn't have noticed it. >> >> I can not agree; everyone had to start a fresh repo, having been active or >> not. > > Yes, but some people had to start 3 or 4 fresh repo, and there was > confusion about whether patches applies to repo #2 would appear in > repo #3 or #4, etc. When repo #3 appeared without material that > I'd pushed for a new doc committer who worked on repo #2, I told > the doc editors to take a holiday for a week because it was too > confusing and disheartening for contributors new to git.
That was a sad coincidence in time. Not the current problem. >> You are too much concerned about stats these days, IMO. Judge by >> yourself, http://paconet.org/lilypond-statistics/ [updated] > > I don't care about stats. I care about the morale of new > contributors. I care about recruiting moderate-to-advanced users > to help explain concepts to doc editors. The whole git repo > switching occurred two days after I asked for volunteers to help > with the docs. But then, after a few days, I had to tell them all > to wait a week. That era is gone and the new repo is fine IMO. Let's go back to work. > People like to see immediate effect of their aid. They didn't get > that. Scarce wonder that nothing ended up happening from that > request. And to avoid being the boy that cried wolf, I'll have to > wait a month before making the same request again. > So if the rebase is going to cause another round of git > repositories, I'd like it done sooner rather than later. If not, > then there's no problem. The exact consequences of my rebase has been a block of 13 repeated commits; those are NOT applied twice as merge is intelligent enough. So the overall ugliness of history is certainly a bit higher now than before, but that's all. Honestly I don't think it does worth any history rewrite. Upstream could confirm or deny. Sorry again. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
