From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:40:37 -0600 Message-ID: <87egeklei4.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87a8pdz9sk.fsf@gnu.org> <20151214092857.GA13044@thebird.nl> <20151214193654.GA22023@jasmine> <20151215101831.GA16741@thebird.nl> <87egeo7ze7.fsf@gnu.org> <20151216045304.GA19514@thebird.nl> <87y4cti5zi.fsf@gnu.org> <20151217184055.GA26398@thebird.nl> <87poy4hglx.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuz0lkph.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20151218010340.GB9461@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53501) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9k3J-0003ae-Vn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:41:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9k3J-0003DR-4W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:41:49 -0500 In-reply-to: <20151218010340.GB9461@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:58:15PM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrot= e: >> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >>=20 >> > Pjotr Prins skribis: >> > >> >> Anyway, I don't hear much enthusiasm for such a project. >> > >> > I think I insisted too much on my concerns, making it sound negative= ; >> > sorry about that. >> > >> > I am definitely enthusiastic about improving documentation. I think >> > there=E2=80=99s some consensus that the manual in its current form i= s >> > insufficient, so efforts in that direction are more than welcome! >> > >> > Ludo=E2=80=99. >>=20 >> Yes, I just had conversations with one person today who was frustrated >> trying to learn how to build their first package and lamenting the lac= k >> of an official tutorial. > > I had this same reaction during my first packages, but I forgot once I > learned. It's worth trying to put oneself in the beginner's mind and I'= d > like to help. I'll use whatever platform as long as the goal is to move > the final product somewhere that's not closed like Github. Yes, could we contribute in some way that would allow us to submit patches or branches on this mailing list? Would that be okay both from a guix-devel maintainer perspective and from a Pjotr starting the docs perspective?