From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cen1t-0007Cf-J2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:13:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cen1q-0001XK-Ey for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:13:13 -0500 References: <1933406e-2576-e687-3545-a72f3b999310@redhat.com> <20170217064327.GB21716@lemon.lan> <6ab86cf8-4780-ca76-f648-ac0ce211e27b@redhat.com> From: John Snow Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:13:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6ab86cf8-4780-ca76-f648-ac0ce211e27b@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Fix build break during configuration on musl-libc based Linux systems. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake , Peter Maydell , Fam Zheng Cc: QEMU Trivial , Paolo Bonzini , Laszlo Ersek , QEMU Developers , Chad Joan On 02/17/2017 10:34 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/17/2017 03:28 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 17 February 2017 at 06:43, Fam Zheng wrote: >>> But your point is taken, we should make the first (or a one-shot) >>> contribution as easy as possible. >> >> Yes; we could do with providing a "This page seems very long..." >> introduction section. The absolute bare minimum requirements >> for a submitter I think are: >> * Provide a Signed-off-by: line (this is a hard requirement >> because it's how you say "I'm legally OK to contribute this >> and am happy for it to go into QEMU") >> * send patch by email >> * read replies and act on them if you want your patch to go in >> >> The larger your contribution is, the more important the other >> requirements detailed on the page are; but personally I'm >> happy to manually fix up patches from a first-time submitter, >> and I think most other maintainers are too. > > I've updated the wiki to put in that nice bullet list, prior to the > table of contents. > Is there a way we can make the quickstart exist in a pop-box? Also, any way to wrap the text on the rest of the introductory article? If you fullscreen this on a widescreen monitor you have to chase the letters to the far corners of the earth. Formatting the article more nicely might help its readability. It's also worth noting that just /reading the outline/ gives you enough advice, reading the details are actually not strictly necessary. --js