Re: Basic Bazaar guide for Emacs hackers.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:03:59 -0600
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Here's what I just did:

Thanks.

> Continued improvements to any of the docs welcome, of course.

I fixed one or two factual inaccuracies and slightly improved wording
in a couple of places.

What's below are random stylistic and methodological comments.  Feel
free to do anything you want with them, including nothing at all.

 . The page is biased towards contributors who don't have write access
   to the Emacs repository.  Notably, it gives almost all examples
   using the HTPP URL, not the SFTP one.  Sometimes it mentions the
   SFTP method, sometimes it does not.  It could be a better idea to
   give both variants for each command.

 . A Unix-like system is assumed without any notice to that effect.
   Some commands will not work on Windows without subtle changes.  For
   example,

    echo "public_branch = http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk"; >> 
.bzr/branch/branch.conf

   will not do what you mean with the `echo' that it built into the
   Windows shell.  Maybe someone could add footnotes with Windows
   equivalents, where applicable (in this case, either remove the
   quotes or use the ported GNU `echo').

 . The single-level sectioning is not the best one in this case,
   because the page actually has 5 top-level sections, which I would
   call Intro, Getting Started, One-Off Change, Feature Branch,
   Resources; and some of these have sub-sections.  Presenting them as
   a single-level document makes it harder to grasp the outline of the
   narrative.  Suggest to have 2 levels of sections, not one.

 . The "Overview of the Bazaar work routine" is too detailed, IMO, and
   thus unnecessarily longish.  We will be explaining all the details
   in a moment, so I think only the main points should be left in this
   overview.

 . "Other Resources" should be at the beginning.  Someone who looks
   for a CVS-like way of doing things should not be required to read
   through such a long document to find the alternatives near the end.