Kai Backman wrote:
Hi everyone,
My current focus is to lower the barrier of entry for new C++
developers who want to hack on the codebase. The first thing a
potential developer will look for is how to check out the source code
from the repository. I've summarized the webpages you need to go
through to reach source access on some popular FOSS projects. The
number after the URL is the number of links on that page.
Kai--
I understand what you're saying. After getting to
www.openoffice.org -> Contributing -> Programming
The wording on that page --
http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html
could be improved I think to get people moving immediately to the
Development area quicker...I'm not even sure why it's termed a
"category" frankly
http://development.openoffice.org/
This being said, it looks like the development main page itself is
running into some formatting problems, at least with my browser
(SeaMonkey) that is making it difficult for the programming categories
on the right side to be seen as quickly as they could be.
So, two things come to mind immediately...Fix up
http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html
so its much more direct
and fix up the main development page
OpenOffice.org
1 http://www.openoffice.org/ 72
2 http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html 45
3 http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html 43
4 http://development.openoffice.org/ 194
5 http://tools.openoffice.org/ 90
6 http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/get_source.html
KOffice
1 http://www.koffice.org/ 130
2 http://www.koffice.org/download/ 80
3 http://www.koffice.org/download/source.php 85
4 http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html
Mozilla.org
1 http://www.mozilla.org/ 40
2 http://www.mozilla.org/developer/ 73
3 http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Download_Mozilla_Source_Code 56
4 http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Source_Code_Via_CVS
Linux Kernel:
1 http://www.kernel.org/
Observations:
- Our checkout page is very deep within the site. I was tempted to add
a 7th chain as the enticing "Build, fix, enhance" link on
development.oo.org actually links to the same page.
- The number of links on development.oo.org is quite high, especially
considering most of them are plain text links. It's difficult to find
the proper path even if you know what to look for.
- Accessing the Linux kernel from kernel.org is truly 1-Click. A major
part of the links on that page are for source archives.
- Maybe we can summarize that the number of C/C++ developers is
inversely related to the ease of finding the source code .. :-)
So what are your suggestions? How could we better funnel potential
hackers to our CVS checkout page and the build page? What are your
thoughts on this?
Oh, and incidentally, when you finally find our repository checkout
instructions, they aren't actually up to date ..
Take care,
Kai
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Kay Schenk
"Optimism without planning is fantasy." -- Unknown
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