[Replicant] Replicant Digest, Vol 169, Issue 8

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le jeudi 03 mars 2016 à 11:37 -0500, David Heath a écrit :
> Just a suggestion, would it be worth putting this into something like pastebin
> or a document that can be directly edited?

We're using git and patches to coordinate development, as is very usual with
free software projects.

> It seems like referencing lines would be cleaner than putting the entire
> document in every email.

That's because each paragraph was on a single line. I'll break them up into one
line per paragraph, that will make patches more understandable and easier to
manage.

>  I do think this sort of documentation is very important but honestly, I'm not
> even sure what document you are discussing or what its relevance is to this
> project. I just woke up yesterday and found a bunch of really long messages in
> my inbox. Not a problem for me since I have time to do a bit of research but
> some members of the mailing list might be even more confused.

This is patch review going through the mailing list. If you're not interested in
code review aspects, feel free to just ignore emails prefixed with [PATCH]!

>  I understand what "hardware freedom state description" is after reading it
> but where is it located on what site?

That's very clearly for the website repository: https://git.replicant.us/replica
nt/website and it doesn't need to be obvious to the non-technical crowd. In
cases where it's not obvious, I think adding the name of the repository (e.g.
[website]) in the message subject would be a good practice.

Those messages are a public way for me to review external changes coming through
the repositories. People might be interested in commenting on those changes, but
at the end of day, I'm the maintainer who's going to be taking the decision to
merge them.

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer

Replicant is a fully free Android distribution running on several
devices, a free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on
freedom and privacy/security.

Website: https://www.replicant.us/
Blog: https://blog.replicant.us/
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