I think Kay is on the right track, but after having been thinking about this for a few days I'd like to go even further:
- Change the upper tab on the frontpage from "Contributing" to "Developers" and make it link to development.oo.org - Fix development.oo.org to be the landing page for everyone interested in working with OO.o (localization folks, UNO devs, marketing, C++ devs). We should first sell the potential devs on OO.o by giving them initial concrete successes and only then start presenting all the different variations of contribution. So how does the process work here, assuming I already have commit access? Kai On 8/18/06, Kay Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I understand what you're saying. After getting to 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 > -- =========================================================== Kay Schenk "Optimism without planning is fantasy." -- Unknown --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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