My comment was with respect to your email
statement::

  >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Joel Berger <[email protected]>
  >> wrote:
  >> > If we are going to start proposing online edits (not
fork/clone/pull-req)...

and not with respect to the current development
and git strategy.

--Chris

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Joel Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris, the edits don't get merged automatically unless you have commit.
> Otherwise they are sent as pull requests, for porters to
> review/comment/merge/reject.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I don't recommend online edits unless we can have
>> automated smokers for at least Mac OS X, linux, and
>> MSWin32 platforms.  Even then, I would prefer to have
>> "a developer in the loop" who can evaluate the status
>> of any changes as well as their potential risk.
>> Nothing derails development more than a broken
>> trunk.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Joel Berger <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > If we are going to start proposing online edits (not
>> > fork/clone/pull-req) we
>> > should setup a travis smoker, which will automatically run smoke tests
>> > (but
>> > only on ubuntu). This prevents merging a non-tested non-runnable pull
>> > which
>> > is easier to happen from an online-only edit.
>> >
>> > Joel
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:42 AM, David Mertens
>> > <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >> create an account on Github if you don't already have one,
>> >> go to the page of the source file, in this case, here:
>> >> https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Basic/Pod/MATLAB.pod,
>> >> 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),
>> >> 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",
>> >> 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),
>> >> 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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