Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Last week, during the MiniConf in Barcelona, the issue of newcomers being lost arised a few times. There are numerous efforts underway to attract new contributors, but it seems we're falling short at retaining some of them when they first approach the project.
The "Help Debian" webpage is a place where many potential contributors will try to find a way to help, but it has many issues. First of all, it is badly organised and not very attractive to read. I think it should be structured in a different way. I think a good idea would be to spli the tasks in different levels of difficulty, separating technical and non-technical, etc. Also, point no 7 is ridiculous: are we actually suggesting a newbie to bootstrap a port?? That definitely needs to be removed :) Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
