Re: Removing "Contribution Guidelines" section from the manual

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:22 AM, siko1056 <address@hidden> wrote:

I agree with Carnë, the information in the manual is rather sparse,
incomplete, and sometimes outdated. A proper link in the manual to e.g.
http://wiki.octave.org/Developers is sufficient (maybe the redirect
http://wiki.octave.org/Development sounds better?). There is really nothing
version specific in this section, like Carnë said, and after the release,
we're able to easily modify the information + other users can contribute.

Kai

as someone who just got involved in the past year, I like the idea of pulling together the 'how to help' info into a better location. As it is, you follow a circular set of links bouncing from the manual to the wiki to the main website (www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html), etc. Since I'm mainly running on windoze, it was enough to get me set up with mercurial and working with dev m-files (since I don't have a rebuild environment set up). Of course, I followed the instructions and am using mq... flying blind I had no idea there was a preferred alternative. It was fairly simple to get to this point, however, and almost any windows user who wanted to help hack m-file portions of Octave could contribute that way. On the wiki, it would be much easier to set up a set of instructions to guide just such a user/contributor. I think a multi-level 'how to help' section would be worthwhile.