[Geany-Devel] Introduction and patch for documentation

[Matthew Brush]

On 14-08-16 10:42 PM, James Lownie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> To introduce myself, my name is James, I use Geany as a developer and
> I'm getting involved in the documentation.  I've never been involved as
> a contributor to any open source project before, and I apologise if I
> break any established protocols :)
>
> As my first contribution I added some clarification to the section about
> Projects.  I generated a patch file as per the instructions in the doco,
> and attached it to this email.  I hope this is the normal procedure.
> There is mention of using a pull request, so do people also push their
> commits to the server?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>

On 14-08-16 10:42 PM, James Lownie wrote:
 > Hi everyone,
 >
 > I was building the docs and I found the documented procedures
 > <http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#id234> don't work for
 > me.  The doco says to do "make docs" to generate the docs, but I found
 > that there is no target for "docs" and I just had to go to the docs
 > directory and do "make".
 >
 > I was writing up a patch to change the doco when it occurred to me that
 > this might be a platform issue.  I'm using Fedora 20 with GNU Make
 > 3.82.  Can anyone shed some light on this?
 >

Colomban wrote:

 > Subject: Re: [Geany-Devel] Introduction and patch for documentation
 >
 > Hi James, and welcome here!
 >
 >> As my first contribution I added some clarification to the section
 >> about Projects.
 >
 > Thanks, applied.
 >
 > Just one thing, we try to keep the lines at a maximum of around 72
 > characters for easier readability of the plain text form. That's no big
 > deal though, I fixed this before committing.
 >
 >> I generated a patch file as per the instructions in the doco, and
 >> attached it to this email. I hope this is the normal procedure.
 >
 > This is just fine, yes.
 >
 >> There is mention of using a pull request, so do people also push
 >> their commits to the server?
 >
 > No, for pull requests we use the GitHub repository and their pull
 > request feature (you have your own fork of the repository and push to
 > it, and then ask us to merge something from your repository).
 >
 > Regards,
 > Colomban



His mail server was down so I sent this message for him. This time to 
correct thread.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush