Re: Marketing Materials in git

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> I'm not sure i"ll be able to make the meeting Saturday, but I do want
> to chime in on this. Having some form of central repository and/or
> some kind of revision control is a great idea. But I think git is just
> a wee bit too developer focused to be comfortable for a lot of people
> we might hope to attract to the marketing team. I'm sure some folks on
> this list have strong tech skills and strong marketing skills, but
> that's not the norm.

All RCSes are developer focused.

What you need for GIT is the same thing we needed for svn and cvs - a
cheat sheet for people who don't want to do anything other than
centralised version control:

0. To install Git on your system, run: (Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse &
Fedora instructions/package names included:

1. To get a copy of GNOME marketing materials in a local directory
called gnome-marketing, run the following command:

2. To update your local copy to see the latest changes, run this command:

3. To commit changes to a file in the directory that you have edited,
run the following command:

4. To add/delete a file from version control, use this command:

5. To see the changes people have made in the past, run:

6. To browse the source code online, go to:

7. For a GUI git client, try:

> What can we use that would be better suited for a non-technical
> audience that might meet the same goals?

Alfresco/Jahia/Nuxeo/KnowledgeTree, maybe? But adding more
infrastructure seems like a pain. In any case, wiki attachments sucks
for collaboratively working on anything, esp. documents.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org