[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r3388 - trunk/src/news.en

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:39:36AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:34:49AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:07:44AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:00:03AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:43:41AM +0100, diego wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Log:
> > > > > Fix syntactically wrong comment tags.
> > > > 
> > > > Somebody by the name of compn deserves vast amounts of caffeinated
> > > > lemonade for committing untested changes...
> > > 
> > > I think most (all?) of us don't know how to test except committing and
> > > seeing what www1 shows...
> > 
> > Seriously?
> > 
> > What did I write the Makefile for then?  Just run 'make' and check
> > 
> > design7/news.html
> > design6/news.html
> > ...
> > 
> > or whatever file it is you changed.
> > 
> > Since I designed the system, it's quite possible that I'm blind to its
> > shortcomings and non-obvious parts.  What can I do to better document
> > this or otherwise make it clear?
> 
> Well, I think I followed some old instructions and I only have
> svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/trunk/src
> checked out.
> I admit that checkout is really old, and checking out everything
> including images was unreasonable back when I only had a 56k
> modem connection...

Ahem...

Would it help if I added a README at the root or is the fact that you
have a faster connection and Subversion supports sparse checkouts
nowadays enough?

Diego