[libvirt] docs: Change or update the hacking page

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:35:54AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 10:01 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > On 05/11/2016 02:04 AM, Nishith Shah wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi everyone, sorry about the empty message above, I was typing and I pressed
> > > the wrong set of keys.
> > > 
> > > So, I was going through the contributor guidelines page[1], and after
> > > discussing with Michal Privoznik, I think there are some things that need to
> > > be updated. For instance, the 4th point about posting patches mentions using
> > > git diff instead of git format-patch. I also feel that the workflow in general
> > > should be re-written and updated with some more details. I have written a very
> > > detailed post about the workflow here[2], and might pick some points up from
> > > there. Please let me know what you think of it.
> > > 
> > > Also, please post the other things  that you think should be changed on that
> > > page in this thread.
> > 
> > I've thought a bit about this too. I don't think the HACKING page is a good
> > landing page for new contributors. It _is_ useful document _everything_ that a
> > contributor might want to know, but I think we should also have a page
> > specifically for a contributor quickstart which has very bare minimum info.
> 
> We have something like that - it's called README-hacking :)
> 
> I argued before that HACKING should be our quickstart document,
> just as is the case with many other projects, and the full
> contributors guidelines should live in a separate document that
> bears a different name.

I'd agree with that - basically stop auto-generating HACKING
file from docs/hacking.html.in and move README-hacking to
HACKING and have it point to the website for full details.


Regards,
Daniel
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