Task Based Development page at mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/tasks/

[Martin Geisler]

Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:

> On 2011-01-24 12:15, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 2011-01-24 09:44, Martin Geisler wrote:
>>>> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> (Thanks for publishing that page, BTW)
>>>>
>>>> No problem, I'm glad people find it useful. We would be happy to
>>>> expand it further with more topics and to get "guest writers". If
>>>> you want to play with it, then clone
>>>>
>>>>   https://bitbucket.org/mg/kick-start
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh. Hmm. Under what license do you publish that work? (Text and self
>>> made images).
>> 
>> Well, I guess we would not want people to re-publish the text without
>> asking us first.
>
> Sorry. Then I'm not interested to contribute, thank you.

What would you like to do with the texts? Having more than one home for
them would be counter productive, just as I don't want to setup
my-hg-tips.com site with the content from hgtip.com.

>> If parts of it makes sense on Mercurial's own pages, then I'll be
>> happy to contribute it back. I would also be happy to open source the
>> (small) back-end code that generates the screen shots if anybody
>> wants to reuse it.
>> 
>> So you should contribute to the guide because you find it useful to
>> have a larger body of documentation in this step-by-step format and
>> understand that we (aragost) will publish it on our website.
>> 
>> I guess I could find a CC-style license for it if you like?
>> 
>
> Well. Uploading the sources for the texts on bitbucket (as you did
> [1]) is a bit strange if people have to first ask you for permission
> to actually *use* the sources and media.

No, it's not -- you are very welcome to download a copy, build the HTML
yourself and use that to send us fixes and improvements. That is a fine
use of the repository, in my opinion. We have already received a Czech
translation (hence the '/en/' in the URLs) and this is another very good
reason to have the source online.

We (Erik and I) have written the texts in company time because aragost
wants to promote Mercurial and because we want people to know that
aragost supports it. The not so hidden idea is that people will remember
us if they ever want to have commercial support for Mercurial.

> At least I found no license file or license header in the sources
> there.
>
> [1]
> https://bitbucket.org/mg/kick-start/src/9a8a4f392d59/src/basic/index.txt

Correct, there is no license added at the moment.

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