<div dir="ltr">Tony,<div><br></div><div>I can not speak for every contributor, but there is a lot more to contributing to a project than the end result. Many contributors take pride in their contributions and these days, one's GitHub contributions have value in the job market. A wholesale removal of the git history by Sugar Labs does not send a very welcoming message to past or future contributors. On a more mundane level, the lack of history means as a developer I have no way of knowing whom to ask for help.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The process for installing repositories requires that the target
repository be empty. <br>
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I would appreciate someone who could itemize what needs to be in a
repository such as the license, .gitignore, README.md, and so on.
Much of that can probably be done by a script using the information
available from ASLO.<br>
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My sense is that PRs are appropriate for changes to an activities
functions (such as a port to gtk3) but not for housekeeping.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div class="m_8222172837798268816moz-cite-prefix">On 04/23/2017 07:27 AM, Love Mehta
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<div>There are many activities lacking a description at <a href="https://github.com/sugar-activities/" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_8222172837798268816moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/sugar" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugar</a>-activ<wbr>ities/
and it is hard to know the name and purpose of the activity
specially in the web activities where one has to open the
index.html file. I think we should add the descriptions from <a href="https://activities.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_8222172837798268816moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://activities.sugarlabs" target="_blank">https://activities.sugarlabs</a>.o<wbr>rg
for each activity to the readme markdown file. I thought of
doing this but this will lead to a large number of pull
requests. Should I go ahead with it?<br>
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