I will try to setup a local copy.... It appears to be working, but download speed is affected by a serious live Fedora-11 upgrade that is in-progress. I figured that I would try it to see if it is as painless as they proclaim.... Life will be interesting. Roman Joost wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 07:52:20PM -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > >> I created an account with "live.gnome.org". I suppose that I was under >> the mistaken impression that they were related. >> >> >>> Note that you can create a clone without having an account. Just clone >>> from git://git.gnome.org/gimp-help-2 You only need to use the ssh URL >>> if you intend to push your changes to the master repository. >>> >>> >> The only reason that I cared was because I spent a few hours reading >> through GIMP documentation. I submitted changes directly to Roman >> Joost. Roman indicated that he would integrate my changes but that he >> was busy so that it would likely take weeks. I told him that I would >> attempt to integrate the changes myself. I also indicated that unless >> someone was familiar with my work that I expected that my proposed >> changes would be vetted. With the process in place here, it is not >> clear to me how that is done, but with GIT I believe that it is >> possible (and that it would be very difficult with SVN). Note that >> apart from my initial exchange with Roman, I have not had further >> communications, so I am NOT saying that Roman indicated that this >> would be possible. I was merely attempting to take the work off of him >> to integrate the changes that I had submitted. >> > You could follow the following pages and try to setup yourself a sandbox > to play with. As Sven already indicated, you create yourself a clone of > manual on which everyone is working on: > > git clone git://git.gnome.org/gimp-help-2 > > The relevant and helpful sites you want to look at: > > http://docs.gimp.org/help.html > http://live.gnome.org/Git > > >> All of my past experience has either been directly with publishers and >> editors (for published materials) and with the OpenOffice.org project, >> which uses an entirely different process. >> > This is more developer centric. > > >>>> Must I do something specific so that my newly created username >>>> AndrewPitonyak (user name for live.gnome.org) will work with my newly >>>> created id_dsa or id_rsa. Note that I did set the permissions to 600 for >>>> the files and 700 for ~/.ssh itself. >>>> >>>> >>> Your account for the GNOME Wiki has nothing to do with having commit >>> access to the GNOME git repository. The latter is reserved for people >>> who have already submitted a reasonable number of patches and needs >>> approval from module maintainers >>> >> I see. OK, I think that I understand that what I was attempting to do is >> not possible. I will send a message to Roman and mention that he should >> take care of integrating the changes that I submitted. >> > As an 'anonymous' contributor you can work on your created copy with > git. You can make commits to your local repository and you can send in > your changes to one of the authors or me (git format-patch creates a set > of patches which can be easily applied and verified). > > >> Needless to say, this form of submission is very time consuming to >> produce and time consuming to integrate. In the time that I created this >> document for a few pages, I could have done many more. Unfortunately, >> the current documentation does not appear to lend itself to a "lets >> track changes and insert comments" mode of collaborative editing that I >> have used on the other projects in which I have participated. >> > That is provided by git, which as I've mentioned above is more developer > centric. You probably need a bit of time to understand and use it. > > Good luck :) > -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
