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Season of Docs?

Subject: Season of Docs?

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4 messages between Mar 23, 2020 and Mar 24, 2020.

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Junio C Hamano· Mar 23, 2020, 23:26 UTC · lore
This is a companion program to GSoC we might want to participate.
  https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-season-of-docs-2020.html
  https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/

Many places in our docs clearly show that they were written by developers, which we may want to rectify.

Taylor Blau· Mar 24, 2020, 00:08 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Season of Docs?

Hi Junio,
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:26:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> This is a companion program to GSoC we might want to participate.
>
>   https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-season-of-docs-2020.html
>   https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/
>
> Many places in our docs clearly show that they were written by
> developers, which we may want to rectify.

This is a great idea, and I think it would be good for us to be involved. I know that Stolee wanted some help writing documentation about partial clones [1]. Maybe that would be a good project for this?

Thanks, Taylor

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.586.git.1584638887.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
Philip Oakley· Mar 24, 2020, 00:30 UTC · re: Taylor Blau · lore

Re: Season of Docs?

Hi Junio
On 24/03/2020 00:08, Taylor Blau wrote:
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> Hi Junio,
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:26:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> This is a companion program to GSoC we might want to participate.
>>
>>   https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-season-of-docs-2020.html
>>   https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/
>>
>> Many places in our docs clearly show that they were written by
>> developers, which we may want to rectify.
> This is a great idea, and I think it would be good for us to be
> involved. I know that Stolee wanted some help writing documentation
> about partial clones [1]. Maybe that would be a good project for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.586.git.1584638887.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
Another would be extending the rerere documentation.
Philip
Derrick Stolee· Mar 24, 2020, 01:15 UTC · re: Taylor Blau · lore

Re: Season of Docs?

On 3/23/2020 8:08 PM, Taylor Blau wrote:
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> Hi Junio,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:26:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> This is a companion program to GSoC we might want to participate.
>>
>>   https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-season-of-docs-2020.html
>>   https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/
>>
>> Many places in our docs clearly show that they were written by
>> developers, which we may want to rectify.
> 
> This is a great idea, and I think it would be good for us to be
> involved. I know that Stolee wanted some help writing documentation
> about partial clones [1]. Maybe that would be a good project for this?

I have a willing volunteer right now. Hopefully we will all see progress in this direction soon. If that doesn't pan out, then we can bring this up as a potential area.

Thanks, -Stolee

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