Re: documentation for novice and newbies

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:42:47PM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:58:11AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
 
>  A distributed versioning system works like this.  You have your own 
> copy of the repository.  You do all your edits, check-ins, and 
> check-outs on that version.  Every now and then (in the middle of the 
> night when phone rates are cheap, for example) you sync your repository 
> with one of the others.  All the changes get sent back and forth, so 
> afterward the repositories are the same.  If there are simultaneous
> updates, the version control system merges them, unless there are 
> serious incompatibilities, in which case, the changes have to be 
> manually merged.  But this merging can also be done anywhere by anyone, 
> and the merge gets distributed in the same way.
> 

Thanks Hendrik,

This sounds neat.  

I'm looking over alioth, have registered and am waiting for the
confirming email.  

It looks like our project would best fit under topic
"Installation/Setup".

Still waiting to hear from others on this but I think that this will be
the way to go.  We may want to put a single page on newbiedoc-wiki and
wiki.d.o pointing to whatever we create.

Thanks,

Doug.