Lee - On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks. I just tried logging in to SourceForge to put this (and which) on > the Perl for Matlab page, but although I am logged in to SF, there is no > edit link on the project page. Is this something for which I need to apply? > > <snip> > SourceForge is where we keep the master repository for PDL, but it's actually easier for new contributors to work through the mirrored repository on Github. The basic process is to edit the file online and submit a pull request. For your edits, I suggest that you 1. create an account on Github if you don't already have one, 2. go to the page of the source file, in this case, here: https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Basic/Pod/MATLAB.pod, 3. click the "Edit" button in the upper right of the page and make your edits (it's written in Perl's documentation format, called POD, in case it looks unusual), 4. describe in a couple of sentences what you changed in the "Extended description" box at the bottom of the page and click "Propose File Change", 5. on the New Pull Request page, click "Send Pull Request" (it'll copy your extended description as the description for the pull request, which should be fine here), 6. and finally, one of the PDL/Github folks will look at the pull request and either pull it immediately or give feedback on how to improve it before it gets pulled in. There are a couple of different directions to go from there, but we need not cover those details now. Give that a whirl and let us know how it goes, and thanks for offering to clean up the Matlab docs! David -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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