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Re: Helping on Git development

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 15, 2011, 15:50 UTC
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Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> writes:
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>> I am moderately averse to hardcoding that URL that is guaranteed not to
>> survive the maintainer change in our README file. The howto/maintain-git
>> document mentions the periodical "A note from the maintainer" posting to
>> the list that has the same text, which is a more appropriate reference.
>
> Would a link to the wiki be more appropriate? Perhaps even a 'getting
> started' page that collates information like this?
> ...
> When kernel.org comes back online I may have a go at creating such a
> page. Any thoughts?

"Getting started" that describes how they got started, collectively maintained by people who got started recently, may serve as a good guide for people who follow. And if it is done as a wiki, you are free to create and update without asking permission from the community ;-).

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  1. Eduardo D'AvilaSep 14, 2011
  2. Andrew ArdillSep 14, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2011
  4. Jonathan NiederSep 14, 2011
  5. Jeff KingSep 14, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2011
  7. Jeff KingSep 15, 2011
  8. Andrew ArdillSep 15, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2011
  10. Jeff KingSep 15, 2011

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