Re: Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Leo Famulari writes:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:58:15PM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>> 
>> > Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
>> >
>> >> Anyway, I don't hear much enthusiasm for such a project.
>> >
>> > I think I insisted too much on my concerns, making it sound negative;
>> > sorry about that.
>> >
>> > I am definitely enthusiastic about improving documentation.  I think
>> > there’s some consensus that the manual in its current form is
>> > insufficient, so efforts in that direction are more than welcome!
>> >
>> > Ludo’.
>> 
>> Yes, I just had conversations with one person today who was frustrated
>> trying to learn how to build their first package and lamenting the lack
>> of an official tutorial.
>
> I had this same reaction during my first packages, but I forgot once I
> learned. It's worth trying to put oneself in the beginner's mind and I'd
> like to help. I'll use whatever platform as long as the goal is to move
> the final product somewhere that's not closed like Github.

Yes, could we contribute in some way that would allow us to submit
patches or branches on this mailing list?  Would that be okay both from
a guix-devel maintainer perspective and from a Pjotr starting the docs
perspective?