Re: [Gimp-docs] [Gimp-developer] Gimp Manual Roadmap proposal

[Roman Joost <romanofski gimp org>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Michael Natterer wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 17:07 +1300, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Roman Joost <romanofski gimp org> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've put together a Roadmap proposal under:
> > >
> > >     http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Documentation:Main
> > >
> > > Any feedback is welcome. Some of the points are not to be read as: go
> > > ahead and implement, but rather look into it for it's feasibility.
> > >
> > > If there are no objections or comments I'd basically call the roadmap
> > > silently as accepted. For each point I think it'll be good to create
> > > bugs so we can track progress.
> >
> > I've not read it in details and mostly skimmed through.
> >
> > I got intrigued by a specific point though: moving the manual to
> > github. Really?
I'm sorry for the misunderstanding caused by my poor organisation of the
wiki page. This is not part of the roadmap, but is part of our list of
ideas. As such, I think it is valid to raise and think about; talk about
it's pros and cons. But that's all what it is so far - an idea asking if
it would bring any benefits.

> > I know several (all?) of GNOME's repos have already
> > been *mirrored* to github. Personally I find it acceptable if repos
> > are just mirrored (that's after all one of the point of git as a
> > "distributed" revision control), but not if it is to be considered the
> > new main repository of the project. github is just another of these
> > platforms led by a company, just like was Sourceforge (and now look,
> > with time, all projects are fleeing it, just as we did), and like will
> > be some other "fashionable" platform in the future. So I say, we keep
> > control of the main repo. And if a github mirror had to be created,
> > that would only be to profit of its network effect (why not), but it
> > must be soon clear to new contributors that they must sync with the
> > GNOME repo in the end, not the github one.
> >
> > Was that what you were proposing? If so, ok.
>
> +1 from me.
>
> Why would you move to github? I agree with everything Jehan said.

I've never considered it in such a detail. So well said. I couldn't
agree more.

I've moved our ideas on to a separate page to make the key points for
the next release (3.0) more readable.

Cheers for the feeback!
-- 
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski gimp org