[issue17284] create mercurial section in devguide's committing.rst

Carol Willing added the comment: I've reviewed this issue at the PyCon sprint. While I agree that there are sections that new contributors might wish to skip over, I believe that there is content that would benefit contributors that are not yet core developers. Going forward we can try to keep

[issue17284] create mercurial section in devguide's committing.rst

Ezio Melotti added the comment: The problem with that is that you have to navigate through different links/pages/sections though (see also msg182645). -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17284] create mercurial section in devguide's committing.rst

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: I think making the sections more focused helps because sections are the linkable units, and sections can be freely moved around once they are more stand-alone (e.g. into or out of the FAQ). In issue 16931 in response to Ned, I suggested adding a general Mercur

[issue17284] create mercurial section in devguide's committing.rst

Ezio Melotti added the comment: > The point of the change in section title is to have a title so > non-committers know they can skip over the section. In the first part of committing.rst there are also things for committers only, and some of the content of the "working with mercurial" might be

[issue17284] create mercurial section in devguide's committing.rst

Chris Jerdonek added the comment: > Currently the section covers all the fundamental Mercurial-related operations > that a committers needs to know (set up, commit, merge, push), not just > committing. The point of the change in section title is to have a title so non-committers know they can

[issue17284] create mercurial section in devguide's committing.rst

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This has now been committed as part of #14468. Regarding the change of the section title, I'm not sure that's necessary. Currently the section covers all the fundamental Mercurial-related operations that a committers needs to know (set up, commit, merge, push), no

[issue17284] create mercurial section in devguide's committing.rst

New submission from Chris Jerdonek: As discussed in issue 14468, this issue is to reorder the sections in the devguide's committing.rst to create a section dedicated to using Mercurial when committing. The attached patch is adapted from the "2-move_two_sections.diff" patch of that issue. ---