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
>> 
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