Hi Kay, On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:00:15PM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote: > > I realize I am coming VERY late to this whole discussion [...]
You're not late, it is hard to keep up with it... > My feeling about the current 'Project' tab is that, indeed it is not > very useful to new visitors. It goes into way too much detail about the > various categorizations of projects to begin with before you even get to > a list, which, again, is not the best when it comes to describing really > what each of the projects is about or encompasses. I agree. > Maybe we could come up with a new design for this page? I realize that > some of what we've got going on makes use of the handy dandy servlet > capability of SourceCast, so I don't know how much of what I'm > suggesting can be readily used. Huh? Where is some servlet stuff being used? The only servlet stuff wrt the project list is some boring listing: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectList The problem is that we *don't* have any nifty scripting available. And the ones used on SourceCast (that is now called CollabNet Enterprise Edition) don't help... > Just to give you some ideas. Take a look at the NetBeans Contributing > page (this is just the first one I thought about and not necessarily the > best) > > http://www.netbeans.org/community/contribute/ I think we have a neat contributing page as well: http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html > It goes into a nice friendly explanation of what it means to contribute > in various ways. We might want to bypass much of this since some of it > is addressed in other ways on the OpenOffice site. Then you can use the > drop-down to see an exhaustive list of the specific projects. Personally, I don't find the listbox very intuitive. It is put at the bottom of the page and requires quite some scrolling. And it doesn't stand out either. It is true that the OOo contributing page doesn't address code contributions properly, but the listbox is not my first choice... > If it were > up to me to do something like this, I would also include a brief > explanation (I mean like less than 20 characters) of what the project > actually did, hopefully using some wording that most people/potential > developers could understand. A listbox would however solve the problem of giving immediate access to the projects without "cluttering" the frontpage (badly chosen word, I know...) and could be done fairly easily (only have to find the right spot for it... ciao Christian -- NP: Emil Bulls - Smells Like Rock'n'Roll --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
