Eric P. Mangold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wed Oct 29 20:40:49 CDT 2008 Eric P. Mangold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * improve front page of http://darcs.net > I was a little confused by the wording on the darcs.net front-page. > Where it says "Originally developed by David Roundy" that made me > think that Mr. Roundy might not be involved in development anymore. > The kind folks on IRC set me straight, however :) > > So I improved the wording in a couple places and added a section that > says a few things about the current state of the development > community.
Thanks for helping out! Are you interested in volunteering more time to work on darcs documentation? > New patches: > > [improve front page of http://darcs.net > Eric P. Mangold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>**20081030014049 > I was a little confused by the wording on the darcs.net front-page. > Where it says "Originally developed by David Roundy" that made me > think that Mr. Roundy might not be involved in development anymore. > The kind folks on IRC set me straight, however :) > > So I improved the wording in a couple places and added a section that > says a few things about the current state of the development > community. > ] hunk ./doc/index.html.in 53 > <h2>Smart</h2> > > <p>Originally developed by physicist David Roundy, darcs is > - based on a unique algebra of patches. </p> > + based on a unique <a href="manual/node9.html">algebra of > patches.</a></p> This part sounds fine, as long as we're OK with referring to a page in the manual by number. I'm a bit nervous about that, because rearranging the manual could cause node9 to become node3 or node12. Is there a related article on the wiki which could be linked to instead? Wiki articles have semantic names and are thus less likely to change. > <p>This smartness lets you respond to changing demands > hunk ./doc/index.html.in 56 > - in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Learn > - more about <a > href="http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/SpontaneousBranches";>spontaneous > branches</a> with darcs.</p> > + in ways that would otherwise not be possible. For example, learn > + about <a > href="http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/SpontaneousBranches";>spontaneous > branches</a> with darcs.</p> > + > + <h2>Going Places</h2> > + <p>First released in 2003, Darcs is now managed by a sizable > + team of programmers (including David). Daily improvements, > + combined with tight quality control, culminate in frequent > + releases.</p> This part sounds fine to me. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
