From 9ff87b6cc9ab534943618eb5dc26d606e0d2321c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:33:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] MaintNotes: issues and contributions to friendly 3rd party projects --- MaintNotes | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/MaintNotes b/MaintNotes index 743e3b668e..ebda282f46 100644 --- a/MaintNotes +++ b/MaintNotes @@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ As an anti-spam measure, the mailing list software rejects messages that are not text/plain and drops them on the floor. If you are a GMail user, you'd want to make sure "Plain text mode" is checked. +The mailing list, while welcoming non code contributions like bug +reports, mostly discusses updating contents of the source tree to the +(core) Git software, including documentation "git help" gives. +Non-code contributions may have places other than the mailing list +that are more preferrable. See the "other places" section near the +end. + Before sending patches, please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/CodingGuidelines to familiarize yourself with the project convention. @@ -293,3 +300,36 @@ own authoritative repository and maintainers: When sending proposed updates and fixes to these parts of the system, please base your patches on these trees, not git.git (the former two even have different directory structures). + + +* Other places. + +As the Git ecosystem has grown larger over the years, there are +documentation sites and third-party tools that have been created and +maintained by friendly third-parties. Reporting issues with them to +the main mailing list is still welcomed by the list participants, but +most likely you will be asked to contact these third-parties directly. + + - git-scm website (https://www.git-scm.com/) is maintained directly + on its GitHub repository and its issues are managed there. + + https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues + https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/?tab=readme-ov-file#contributing + + - Git for Windows (https://gitforwindows.org/) is a project that + packages (core) Git software with some other goodies for the + Windows platform. They manage their own issues list and their + changes are managed directly on GitHub via pull requests, focused + primarily on Windows specific issues and their additions (like + Windows installer). + + https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/How-to-participate + https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues + + - The online edition of ProGit Book hosted at git-scm.com/book/ is + managed by the Pro Git book folks, and they maintain their work and + issues at their GitHub repository. + + https://github.com/progit/progit2/issues + https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md +