Re: AUTHORS material (re)started

[james]

Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:

> 
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:34:34AM +0000, Graham Percival wrote:
> 
> Sorry, now I'm doubting this.  I've realized that we have lots of
> other links on the web page without spelling them out like this.
> Updating them all would be a fair-sized job, and there's no reason
> to single out this page.

Let me know what a 'fair-sized' job means. If it's a 'take a load of files open
them in an editor and search/replace then open another file and another and
another', then that's fine I can do that (I know it sounds dull, but I'm ok with
this tidying up kind of job', maybe make it another 'to do' and assign it me -
as long as I know what files or roughly where, we can start making the
consistencies from now if you like?

> 
> That said, I'm not fond of the alternate "Name" vs.
> "@email{blah,Name}" vs. "@uref{blah,Name}".  Maybe we should
> specify either "Name" or "@email{blah,Name}" (as appropriate),
> with a separate "(@uref{blah,website}): " after the first string
> if they want a website listed?
> Any ideas?

I don't have any ideas yet as this is the first time I've done this kind of
thing and have nothing to compare so again, if you want to start making some
'from now on let's make it like..' consistencies, then do it, I can go back and
redo the edits. Once I get the feel for what I think you want in terms of style
it will be more intuitive I think.

> 
> I'm still fairly confident about my other instructions, although
> if anything seems questionable, please question it!  :)

No it seems pretty straight forward, what I will probably get wrong are things
like knowing when/when not to 'git -r' or download a later build and if I need
to compile or not (as opposed to just working with the source files - whatever
that actally means ;) ). I will need some hand holding on that side to start
with. So if I get it wrong, I apologise now! Ah...to be a n00b all over again!