[PATCH] docs: simplify help sentence in MyFirstContribution.adoc

QueenJcloud· Oct 23, 2025, 12:48 UTC · lore

This commit simplifies the help sentence in the MyFirstContribution document to make it shorter and clearer for new contributors.

Signed-off-by: QueenJcloud <qjessa662@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Show changes to Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc +1 −1

diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
index 91c6296ffe..f0768bd03c 100644
--- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ useful additional context:
 [[getting-help]]
 === Getting Help
 
-If you get stuck, you can ask for help on the mailing list or Git community channels listed below.
+If you get stuck, ask for help in the following places.
 
 ==== git@vger.kernel.org

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Junio C Hamano· Oct 23, 2025, 17:19 UTC · re: QueenJcloud · lore

Re: [PATCH] docs: simplify help sentence in MyFirstContribution.adoc

QueenJcloud <qjessa662@gmail.com> writes:

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> This commit simplifies the help sentence in the MyFirstContribution
> document to make it shorter and clearer for new contributors.
>
> Signed-off-by: QueenJcloud <qjessa662@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
> index 91c6296ffe..f0768bd03c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ useful additional context:
>  [[getting-help]]
>  === Getting Help
>  
> -If you get stuck, you can ask for help on the mailing list or Git community channels listed below.
> +If you get stuck, ask for help in the following places.

I do not quite understand this change. Where are we getting that longer and less clear version?

The text in our source (both 'maint' and also 'seen') has

    [[getting-help]]
    === Getting Help

    If you get stuck, you can seek help in the following places.

and the above text has not changed since it was written in 4bb4fd42 (MyFirstContribution: add avenues for getting help, 2020-01-24). So there is nothing to "make it shorter" there.

Is "you can ask for help" materially better than "you can seek help"? As a non-native speaker, I cannot quite tell. Both are equally understandable to me, so I see nothing to "make it clearer" there, either.

Puzzled...

patchdocs: simplify help sentence in MyFirstContribution.adoc