> On May 25, 2018, 9:35 p.m., Benjamin Bannier wrote:
> > docs/developer-guide.md
> > Lines 128 (patched)
> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/67308/diff/1/?file=2029074#file2029074line128>
> >
> >     Thanks for capturing this!
> >     
> >     As a high level comment, I believe this doc should capture important 
> > information for developing Mesos. Since it already is pretty big I am not 
> > sure this new section is of enough general importance to be included here. 
> > Maybe we could move it to a blog post or additional document linked under 
> > `Further reading` at the bottom instead?
> 
> Andrew Schwartzmeyer wrote:
>     > I believe this doc should capture important information for developing 
> Mesos. Since it already is pretty big
>     
>     As the sole author of this document so far, I appreciate that!
>     
>     > I am not sure this new section is of enough general importance to be 
> included here.
>     
>     I respectfully disagree with this. I am quite sure it is of enough 
> general importance, as navigating the Mesos code-base as an incredible chore, 
> and the majority of devs I've spoken with just fall back to inefficient uses 
> of `grep`. Based on the feedback of my cquery demo at the last dev sync, I 
> think this information is wanted, and I don't see a better place than a 
> developer guide.
>     
>     How strongly do you feel that we should split this document up?

Imagine being a new contributor to Mesos wanting to know how to write code and 
contribute their patch. They could read `developer-guide.md` for e.g., best 
practices or patterns, `c++-style-guide.md` for how to format their code, and 
`[beginner|advanced]-contribution.md` for how to contribute their code.

Currently all these documents already ask for a lot of reading, even though 
they just contain information which should apply to almost everyone. Ideally a 
contributor should know everything in these guides. This is asking a lot from a 
new contributor, and I think it is important to focus on highly relevant 
information. Documenting less central information is still great, but we should 
avoid overloading documents we would point new contributors to -- we can always 
add these elsewhere.

As an example, I am pretty happy having integrated Mesos' `clang-tidy` with 
vim's `ale` plugin, but I think putting this into a doc new contributors would 
reach out for to make sense of Mesos wouldn't be a great experience for them.


- Benjamin


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> (Updated May 25, 2018, 4:30 a.m.)
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> Review request for mesos, Benjamin Bannier, Benjamin Hindman, Benjamin 
> Mahler, Greg Mann, Jie Yu, James Peach, and Joseph Wu.
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> Repository: mesos
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> Description
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> Note that while cquery and LSP support many editors, this only
> demonstrates how to setup Emacs. Documentation on Vim setup is
> welcome!
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> 
> Diffs
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>   docs/developer-guide.md 3dbc93ee4225abc54593dda005781d879d2ca8da 
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> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/67308/diff/1/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andrew Schwartzmeyer
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