Re: contributing instructions are misleading!

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 03:47:32PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> 2014/1/1 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > Not quite.  1) is obvious, but equally important is 1.5) update
> > incorrect info.  Remember this latest iteration of interest in the
> > CG happened because one or two new contributors tried to follow
> > the published (incorrect) info, got into trouble, and
> > understandably were irritated.
> 
> You're right that updating incorrect info is important.  However, as
> far as i remember there's not much _incorrect_ info left - the problem
> that we have now is more that the information is confusing:
> duplicated, placed in unexpected places, etc.

We rarely (if ever) have perfectly duplicated material.  We tend
to have duplicated and slightly different material.  In such
cases, at least one of the duplications contains incorrect info.

... I'll admit that 10 minutes of poking around in the CG didn't
find any such instances of duplicated material.  CG 1.4 Mentors
should be removed, and most of the stuff in CG 14 Administrative
policies is probably useless and/or misleading, but I didn't see
any obvious huge holes in those 10 minutes.

- Graham