Connect to preliminary material: Good Enough Practices

[ewallace]

How could the content be improved?

Hello,
We've now had the Good Enough Practices Lesson accepted at Carpentries Lab: https://carpentries-lab.github.io/good-enough-practices/

The lesson, particularly the Keeping Track of Changes episode, can act as a preliminary material for this Git lesson. It's has more material on the context and ideas of version control, that complements the skills and mechanics for this Git lesson. Indeed, the lessons could be taught as 2 successive half-days: Good Enough Practices, then Version Control with Git.

Are there good places here to cross-reference or to tell learners about Good Enough Practices? I'm happy to put in a pull request if your lesson teams has suggestions about where it would best fit.

Best wishes,
Edward

[martinosorb]

Hi and thanks for the contribution. The best place to mention it is likely in the introductory part. However, how stable is the lesson? I would first like to better understand the status of Lab lessons to see if it makes sense to reference them. I will discuss with the other maintainers and governors.

[ewallace]

Hi,
The lesson is stable. More in the blogpost: https://carpentries.org/blog/2024/03/good-enough-practices-carpentries-lab/

It's been through peer review: carpentries-lab/reviews#24

How else can I help?

[martinosorb]

Personally I'm happy to accept a PR adding reference to this lesson, thanks. I would suggest as you say to (also) link directly to the "Keeping track of changes section". I think the best place to do so is 01-basics, where we explain why version control is important. Would you be willing to do that?