Re: [elpa] chess.el: Req. for comment/review: Info manual

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:23:38 +0200
> 
> I have recently tried to get the chess.el info manual more
> complete/useful.  This is my first texi document, and actually the first
> time I am trying to document software beyond comments/docstrings and/or
> readme's :-).  The basic skeleton of chess.info was created by John
> Wiegley in 2002.  I have just added to it, and fixed some incorrect
> stubs.  Still, as this is the first info manual I am working on, I'd be
> very happy about a bit of external review of my work.  If you have
> recently checked out chess.el, or have a love for texi, or both, please
> have a look at the latest version in elpa.  I am really happy about any
> kind of help here, be it style corrections (I am not a native speaker)
> or even some ideas on how to explain things better/more complete.
> 
> If you have elpa commit access and find anything valuable, just go ahead
> and commit it, I am totally fine with that.

I've reviewed the manual and have quite a few changes to it.

I'm not sure how to proceed with this: the package is maintained
outside of elpa, and I probably don't have write access there.  OTOH,
committing the changes to savannah doesn't sound right, since README
says that local changes to externals should be kept to a minimum.

Let me know whether to send the diffs to you.  Thanks.

Btw, your last change to README, viz.:

  -   git clone --reference .. --single-branch --branch externals/PACKAGE git://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/emacs/elpa PACKAGE
  +   git clone --reference .. --single-branch --branch externals/PACKAGE $(git config remote.origin.url) PACKAGE

is not necessarily for better: now this command and "make externals"
will do subtly different things, which not everyone will realize.  If
we want to be sure people with write access use the URL with write
access (and don't want to rely on them to know that and use the
correct URL), we should make changes to admin/archive-contents.el to
do that when all the externals are checked out.