[documentation] Problem With One of the Main CVS Pages

[Ryan Cross]

Disagree.

it is very standard practice for people jumping into a new open source
project to want to see HEAD (or trunk or whatever) or for people's first
interest in CVS is to see "what's coming". Most people that are interested
in checking out a specific version (like a stable version) are more advanced
or experienced with CVS already. Someone's first jump into CVS is not going
to be doing so in an effort to make upgrading easier.

My 2 cents at least.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:

> Hi gang,
>
> This is about http://drupal.org/node/320
>
> The title of the page is: *Checking out from the main repository
>
> *The assumption on that page is that you want to check out HEAD. There is
> one small section which says, "If you want to check out a specific version
> of Drupal..."
>
> I believe the assumption of the page should be opposite, that you want to
> check out a specific version of Drupal. That is how you can check out the
> latest stable release.
>
> The use-case for checking out HEAD is for core committers or folks testing
> patches to core. That is very important. However, I think the vast majority
> of people wanting to get their feet wet in CVS (and therefore coming to this
> handbook page) want to check out the latest *stable release* in order to
> make it easier to upgrade the next time an updated stable release is
> deployed.
>
> I'd like to edit the page so that the primary instructions are for checking
> out a specific version and the secondary instructions are for folks wanting
> to checkout HEAD.
>
> I thought this was a big enough change that I wanted to run it by others.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shai
>
> --
> Pending work: http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/
> List archives: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/attachments/20081120/23eb58e1/attachment.htm