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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel , calcium Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1641668831; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=isqEXFaCMNJRQdm+mKudVB24BWk4xYH7cwlue0h68Ic=; b=CLFISdJM2DW6vudRJJg/Eovq73aZq5GqrJTyKYAuCdDSqX2gHo6VtLS/rtQn1ZduI8z9DC OX6uBk4SueRC/wj9au/qJ8DkBhmKPWPivVj8EyRoQy0RGl1JN/mVT+t620jABIZEdZLCJT X95X8l+iqlgqfwknslChrFsKcMcpDTgRz32dtAGDp521pr94/Fw2MDl35ktkK/8sqi0lWz 8I0MfD0Hi8G2QjOFSMtY4aKw3s1qQpla5NE8TQwI+zQfCBKqXSvoMdjqM9QQ1+zXHE1H7r lZrkrOuNHh8lWKwYcUHOF2p0uycOAZQ2vlnooA0YTCj4fa4unkVngVUn+KHbTg== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1641668831; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=pG/BrFWUxiBz35omYPJ2fKfrJ5wpsRhQkMSSNVhtIu6miEmzoJNOME4v00LgmVT2gHAiZf 9WXHO5924FN4lJcdUqXJNNWRy1xqjYQV1VaA8HGY0XP0BwP7/XyfFZ2gNA2QrPrkih1330 xZh3r6dGocuZQkiA3L3asXsqIl0Fs0Kueq3Mb2oazKDcuAXvVC9igYnJkNIl4zSJOe7vb1 csd51cr1Z9h0ehXN3AXgtxiFak3AT8fSA9s7KEWLXjSj0YzVXwJapybIlTmQwZUIpQmiYR cm26Ntp8BCHCojSRjhzt0zcIE7qsj70WFdQvz/6g9JzjsqiV0UUApnvdyuNLfw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=famulari.name header.s=mesmtp header.b=tlSGBSAo; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=messagingengine.com header.s=fm1 header.b=LZC4Fzt0; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.21 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=famulari.name header.s=mesmtp header.b=tlSGBSAo; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=messagingengine.com header.s=fm1 header.b=LZC4Fzt0; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: A0F12DE5A X-Spam-Score: -2.21 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: EvB6oEn3mBm4 On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 11:24:35AM -0500, Matt wrote: > Let me walk through what that looks like from my perspective. I'm afraid, however, that it comes across as aggressive, ungrateful, or demanding. None of those are my intent! I genuinely want to help but struggle to understand the process. My goal is to outline a "user story". > > From my perspective, contributing to the cookbook looks as follows. I've tried to be factual and ask rhetorical questions. > > How do I contribute to the cookbook? I see no information in the cookbook about how to do that. I'm looking at https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/guix-cookbook.html > > The contribute page (https://guix.gnu.org/en/contribute/) links to this mailing list. I am willing and ready to contribute. Now what? > > I see the manual has a section on contributing: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html#Contributing > > I see nothing about how to contribute to documentation. > > Do I need to submit a patch? > How do I submit a patch? > Do I have to write in TexInfo? > What is the roadmap from me spending hours authoring something to it being available for review from experts or to being useful to others? I see that this all seems confusing. If you have something to contribute, you should just mail it to this list or guix-patches. Definitely, we prefer you send patches, but if that is too hard, you can send your contribution in *any* form.