[Gimp-docs] How long to become active? (unable to use git)

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak]

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 :)
>   

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