Re: [OUTREACHY] Permission To Work On Tasks

> > > Second issue is this https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/302 .
> > > Is it still available to be worked on? I notice it was opened in 2019
> >
> > Stepping back a bit, do you agree with what the issue says?
> > Remember, these "issue"s are merely one person's opinion and not
> > endorsed by the community.
> >
> > Before you ask "is it still available", do you know the current
> > status (not the status of the "issue")?  Have you looked at "git
> > commit --help" to find it out yourself to see if "now" is singled
> > out?  Here is what we say in our documentation:
> >
> >     In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the --date
> >     option will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric
> >     date formats, such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last
> >     Friday at noon".
> >
> > So apparently it is still "available".  It is a different matter how
> > well a patch that adds "now" to the examples listed there will be
> > accepted, though.  During a microproject, one of the things new
> > contributors are expected to learn is to convince others the cause
> > of their patches with the proposed commit log message well.
>
> Yeah, I think this issue, if it is indeed an issue, is not something
> easy to "fix" for a newcomer as it requires to be familiar with our
> documentation and perhaps our code too, or to research them enough to
> understand what a good improvement would be. So you could perhaps do
> it, but it would likely require more work.