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

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-01-24 13:33, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2011-01-24 13:08, Martin Geisler wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I certainly don't contribute to something if I have to ask for
>> permission to use the end result.
> 
> That is why I talked about making the tiny bit of code that drives the
> whole thing open source -- then you can publish your own guides in the
> same style. We would of course like for them to be hosted at our site so
> that we make it a central resource of guides in this format.
> 
>> Very strange view you folks seem to have at Aragost. But I am not
>> surprised at all.
>>
>> You invite people to work on your texts for free and then want to
>> control who publishes it and where it's published.
> 
> We would be happy to buy you beer in Zurich if you translate the guide
> into German.

What a silly proposal. Why should I work on the German translation of
Aragost's homepage in return for a beer?

> Look, the whole concept is not so strange or repulsive as you make it...

But you still want to be in control of what others have contributed. I see.

> I'm very passionate about Mercurial and aragost has allowed me to write
> and publish these guides -- I wanted to write them because I think they
> are useful and we (aragost) wants to have useful Mercurial-related
> content on our website. There is no trick behind this :)

The trick is that you (or Aragost) want to be in control of it.

But thanks for making this clear.