Matthew Brett

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:40 PM Adam Turner via Docutils-develop docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: There is some progress, see the update to todo in [r9059] (https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/dev/todo.html#repository). The script is not yet fully finished though, and I don't know who controls docutils/docutils, we'd want to talk to them too to get a transfer done. Thanks for this update. Is the script somewhere visible for others to help with? What remains to be done, for the script?...

I'm sorry - I'm hardly using this forum - would you mind posting over at https://marsbar.discourse.group/ ?

Hi, On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 3:06 PM engelbert gruber via Docutils-develop docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Beats me ... since when is the choice of newbies an argument for going that way. Sorry - just couldn't help it. I think you will find that a huge majority of experienced developers would strongly support a switch to Github, to support both experienced developers, and newbies. Fortunately for everyone, I can restrain myself from repeating the arguments as to why I'm sure that is...

Hi, On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:11 PM engelbert gruber via Docutils-develop docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: what is so hard about the question: i really would like to know: so i repeat it is there a difference if you clone from the docutils-mirror on github to cloning from a docutils master on github ? thanks for your kindness I would still argue, as I did above, that it only really becomes clear why Git and Github are very much better for this workflow, once you've used them for a while....

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:35 PM engelbert gruber via Docutils-develop docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 13:37, Matthew Brett matthewbrett@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Yes, I know this is a recurring thread - but I was really responding to this: On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 10:28 PM engelbert gruber via Docutils-develop docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: [snip] do you know all uses of the sandbox ? did you see the quality of patches we get ? lacking everything,...

Yes, I know this is a recurring thread - but I was really responding to this: On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 10:28 PM engelbert gruber via Docutils-develop docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: [snip] do you know all uses of the sandbox ? did you see the quality of patches we get ? lacking everything, not even some documentation ... from the same people complaining the documentation of docutils is bad I may have misunderstood, but I took that comment to suggest that moving to Github was a bad idea...

I have not contributed to Docutils, apart from some bug reports, but I have worked on most scientific Python projects, and have several of my own. The collaboration features of Git / Github (or Gitlab, or whatever) are vastly superior to the SVN / Sourceforge equivalents, and this has obvious consequences in terms of: Increased quality of community engagement Size of the developer community. I'd like to emphasize the first. It may not be obvious, but my experience is that - the clunkier and more...

I'm really sorry I missed this one. If you still haven't solved this - can you post over at https://marsbar.discourse.group/ ?