[documentation] Some thoughts

[Heine Deelstra]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:44 PM, liza<nyc.blogdiva at gmail.com> wrote:
> If this were really a community for all, you wouldn't start install
> documentation with this
>
>> INSTALLATION
>> ------------
>>
>> 1. DOWNLOAD DRUPAL
>>
>>    You can obtain the latest Drupal release from http://drupal.org/. The
>> files
>>    are in .tar.gz format and can be extracted using most compression
>> tools. On a
>>    typical Unix command line, use:
>>
>>      wget http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-x.x.tar.gz
>>      tar -zxvf drupal-x.x.tar.gz
>
> BTW: I'd love to change these instructions but I have never been able to, as
> you claim, just edit a page in Drupal.org.

You can work on a new INSTALL.txt via a wiki / the issue queue / a
book page, then have someone with patch chops make the patch against
Drupal core. There's still time to do that for Drupal 7.

Heine