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A comment on Architecture.md (2021).

Re:Architecture.md (2021) by rurban on Sunday February 25, 2024 @02:02AM (#39498353)
A DEVELOPMENT or HACKING document should be enough for contributors, to cite the coding guidelines. When someone wants to contribute without understanding the code workflow, he should not contribute.
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Re:Architecture.md (2021) by marttilaine on Sunday February 25, 2024 @04:03AM (#39499032)
> When someone wants to contribute without understanding the code workflow, he should not contribute.

There are definitely many projects where you don't need to understand every single aspect of the codebase to be able to contribute a meaningful fix or even a feature.

It benefits the contributor and the project if they have a simple pointer to e.g. where the application logic code is, or where the distribution-related code is, etc.

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