Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/3/2016 7:07 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Charles Warwick
> <charles at techstrategies.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> There will be limitations on what I can do depending on the volume of
>> requests that come through..., please
>> feel free to contact me directly.
>>
> Charles, THANK YOU so much for offering, but can I suggest that
> instead such requests are posted to this List with [DOCS] as a prefix
> in the Subject. I think that would have three benefits:
>
> 1) You respond here that you're handling a request. If the load gets
> too much, then other's might join in and pick up one's you've missed.
> I hope I would occasionally be able to help.
> 2) You respond here that you've completed the PR. The Community here
> gets to see that submissions are being made and actioned and hopefully
> a snow ball effect will occur - with more people noticing and
> submitting errors. No 1 will then become more important ;-)
> 3) It leaves a very public trail of what has already been picked up
> and actioned. Just because a PR has been completed doesn't mean it
> instantaneously appears in the Dictionary. So in much the same way
> that people should search the QCC to see that a Bug they've noticed
> hasn't already been submitted, anyone noticing a Dictionary error
> should hopefully be able to search this List and see if a PR has
> already been submitted.
>
> Again, thank you for stepping up.

Yes, all hail to Charles! But I wonder if posting requests to the list 
will add too much irritating noise; I was thinking of something more 
private. On the other hand, peer pressure isn't all bad.

Speaking of github, isn't there some kind of "check out" procedure? If 
so, I'm not sure how that would work. Asking Charles to do that for us 
and then push the changes might be more than he signed up for.

The plugin is sounding better and better to me. Are there shell commands 
that a naif like me could just put into a stack without fully 
understanding them? If so, maybe I could write one.

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