From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A03C138334 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE21BE088D; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:47:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87BEEE0872 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:47:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-f44.google.com (mail-io1-f44.google.com [209.85.166.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAA8A34BE26 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f44.google.com with SMTP id z19so49668402ior.0 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:47:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUuMMN/ncAtJ61zBWpRSq2Hy75VncAOqaB5jSnurECgbyPPm/br 3MOhmLI+AlDJ6PIUQCOAqiDpw34fT0XLDz6Of/Q= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyjHTI/noIR9ktbJ6nGARedsVm4nQrlTgiV0cnjSgIJeamwm5ljJ8xZlWPFHGYzsWHScfoAOgtdUuvkYEDGofw= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:f40f:: with SMTP id i15mr13641664iog.54.1571172465752; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7db69bdd30aeaf350f9c70c28abf9d890656d55c.camel@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <7db69bdd30aeaf350f9c70c28abf9d890656d55c.camel@gentoo.org> From: Mike Gilbert Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:47:33 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The demotivating process of contributing to devmanual To: Gentoo Dev Cc: devmanual Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fe8e7520-c8af-4857-99e3-427a03462a66 X-Archives-Hash: fd0df849d700b14b586918aa4543005a On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 4:35 PM Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny = wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > I'd like to highlight a major problem with devmanual. For a basic > policy & developer documentation thingie, it's quality is so-so at best. > A lot of stuff is missing, lots of things are outdated or even > incorrect. Not many people are contributing, and those who try quickly > resign. Maybe you should join the project? Especially if you are making major contributions. > Most of my pull requests were apparently approved, so they might be > finally merged some day. I believe all devs have push access to that repo, so you could just push the changes yourself if there are no reasonable objections. Minor mistakes happen, and can be corrected after the fact.