Won't there be an abstraction of some kind for the user interface? Are all users to be required to get and register an SSH ticket? Does someone need to download the entire book to fix a comma? How do you get them to avoid the temptation to "really fix this baby up"? Who is going to verify the changes? Against what images? Are the whitewashers pretty familiar with Hg? I at least find it conceptually non-trivial - I'm not sure I'd want to train a non-programmer to use it. I've seen some pretty good developers take a while to get comfortable. But I suppose you've already discussed this pretty thoroughly with everyone who will be affected.. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de>wrote:
On 02/01/2012 11:56 PM, don kretz wrote:
I suggest you consider putting a stop to this RST experiment
and step back and come up with some kind of plan that can possibly succeed.
I'm surely not doing that.
Instead of trying to prevent other people (me) from implementing their ideas and visions, you should come up with your own (possibly better) ideas and visions and implement them. When you've done that we may compare notes and maybe ditch some of the worse ideas we had.
As it stands now, you are just complaining and have nothing to offer instead.
Re. the use of a VCS, I've finally decided to use hg and have already set it up on pglaf.org. Over the next days I'll redo some of the older and more popular texts in RST. I will then patch the epubmaker at gutenberg.org to pull RST directly from hg@pglaf.org.
Everybody who wants to participate and is not afraid of RST and a VCS can send me their RSA public keys so I can give them SSH access to the repos.
Everybody who thinks that RST and/or a VCS are bad ideas, is encouraged to implement their own (possibly better) ideas as an individual or a group. Just stop the fruitless complaining and get your act together.
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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