And three, github and friends are relatively easy to deal with in terms of key management and authentication. I think I gave Michael an ssh key once upon a time for my access to his repo, but I don't really remember, and if so, which key?
On Jul 2, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Ian McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, two comments on the topic: > > One, and this may be pretty minor, but when you use github and friends, it > has a nice big "this is the git url to clone" at the top of the page. Gitweb > doesn't, and it's not immediately obvious how to translate what's in gitweb > to a clone url. > > Two, if I want to be able to work on some code on multiple machines (which is > always how I need to work, since I have a work machine and a home machine and > multiple linuxcnc machines), I need a git repository that I can push to. I > did once upon a time have push rights to Michael's repository, but right now > I'm not sure what those credentials are. The path of least resistance at > the moment seems to be 1) go to jepler's github mirror, and 2) hit "fork". > > Ian > > > On Jul 2, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 7/1/13 11:15 , Ian McMahon wrote: >>> >>> On Jul 1, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Matt Shaver <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> OK, I want to start making a "HOWTO Contribute To The Project" wiki >>>> page. Linked to that page will be this page that's at least the >>>> beginnings of what you want: >>>> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Git >>>> Once I get the "HOWTO Contribute To The Project" page going, I'll see >>>> about getting the experts (jepler & seb probably) to address any >>>> shortcomings you can identify on the "Git" page. Can you review this for >>>> me and point out where the "Git" page needs improving/expanding? >>> >>> I will spend some time writing up some comments in a separate email. >> >> After learning at the hackfest that it is unclear how to contribute to >> LinuxCNC, i took that "Git" wiki page and started adding it to our real >> docs (the stuff we keep in git and publish as html & pdf). >> >> I split the info on the wiki page into two documents: "Using Git"[0] is >> intended to become a brief intro to how to use git, and "Contributing to >> LinuxCNC"[1] is intended to be specifically about how to clone/branch >> our repo and get your commits out into the world for people to review >> and/or pull into the mainline repo. >> >> 0: >> http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/doc/scratch/v2.5.2~contributor-docs-1~f892e30/html/code/Using-git.html >> >> 1: >> http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/doc/scratch/v2.5.2~contributor-docs-1~f892e30/html/code/Contributing-to-LinuxCNC.html >> >> >> I have a couple of thoughts on this documentation. >> >> I don't think the LinuxCNC project should run a school on how to use >> git. There are many other excellent git tutorials that do a very good >> job of this already, and the best ones I've found are linked in the >> first section of the "Using Git" document. >> >> I think the wiki is a fine place for many kinds of docs, but it's a bit >> disorganized, it can be hard to find what you're looking for, and wiki >> pages receive less maintenance than our "real" docs and can get a bit >> stale and outdated. So i'd like to encourage documentation efforts to >> have the goal of having the docs end up in git instead of on the wiki. >> >> >> The (very incomplete) branch that adds those two docs above is on >> linuxcnc.org, and is called 'contributor-docs-1'[2]. My goal is to >> finish those docs up and merge the branch into 2.5. Read the docs in >> that branch and follow the instructions if you want to contribute to the >> docs in that branch ;-) >> >> 2: >> http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/contributor-docs-1 >> >> >> >> -- >> Sebastian Kuzminsky >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: >> >> Build for Windows Store. >> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
