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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 class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tony
Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span>
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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"
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
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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