From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:50:13 GMT Subject: Re: Helping on Git development Message-ID: <7v4o0dreiy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Andrew Ardill writes: >> 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 ;-).