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    Every version on ASLO (download.sugarlabs.org) is included as a
    separate commit in increasing order by version number. There was no
    'wholesale removal of git history'. Since the source is ASLO,
    everything is still available, nothing has been removed.<br>
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    I really would appreciate guidance on filling out the repository. <br>
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    Tony<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/23/2017 09:24 AM, Walter Bender
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      <div dir="ltr">Tony,
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        <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>
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        <div>-walter</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tony
          Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 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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                  Tony</font></span><span class=""><br>
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                <div class="m_8222172837798268816moz-cite-prefix">On
                  04/23/2017 07:27 AM, Love Mehta wrote:<br>
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                    <div>There are many activities lacking a description
                      at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                        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
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="m_8222172837798268816moz-txt-link-freetext"
                        href="https://activities.sugarlabs"
                        target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://activities.sugarlabs">https://activities.sugarlabs</a></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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            <div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br>
              <font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div>
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                  href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br>
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