On Tuesday 19 April 2016 13:19:34 Kojo Tero wrote: > Hi, > > Point taken. The open source side does need to be more clearly visible. > > Currently the developer page is structured more toward the new user, with > the idea that more experienced users will visit again and find more > content, like the contribution guidelines. > > So the improvement idea can be split in two parts: > - Provide a clearer path for potential contributors to get involved in Qt > - Make it more clear that Qt is available as open source > > In practice the wiki does have a pretty good set of "how to contribute" > pages, but a new user will not stumble upon them by accident. Making links > to those from the developers page would probably help a lot. Also having > the contribution guide in the wiki is beneficial from my point, as then > anyone contributing can improve the guide. > > The other side of the coin is crowding the developer page with information. > A page about contributing might be a solution, or then a rethink of the > developer page. The new brand style actually provides better tools for > cleaner information presentation. I'll talk with a web developer about how > to present the information and start trying things. > > The other point on making the open source side more visible needs more > thinking. It probably can be achieved partially on the developer page, but > it needs wordings in many places.
Thanks Tero, much appreciated. Sean > > Tero > > -----Original Message----- > From: Development > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Sean Harmer Sent: tiistaina 19. huhtikuuta 2016 15.42 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Development] Qt-Project misrepresented on qt.io > > Hi, > > On Tuesday 19 April 2016 12:50:20 Olivier Goffart wrote: > > I feel that with the unification, there is less and less visibility of > > the Qt open source project: > > The qt.io home page contains no information that Qt is open source and > > contains contributions from the community; The "Developers" section, > > to which http://qt-project.org redirects, mostly contains information > > for developers using Qt, (and more than half seems to be marketing > > targeted for people not yet using Qt) and only a very small paragraph > > near the end seems somehow targeted to contributors; Any links or > > aggregation to planetqt seems gone. Planet Qt is supposed to be an > > aggregation of the blogs of Qt contributors. > > > > It was much better in 2015 where the developers page contained > > information for contributors > > http://web.archive.org/web/20150723065217/http://www.qt.io/developers/ > > > > I think there should be a "Contributors" section from qt.io where qt- > > project.org would redirect. And which would have links useful for > > contributors, including links and aggregation of planet qt. > > > > I acknowledge that The Qt Company is by far the biggest contributor to Qt. > > And that because of the CLA, they have no obligation whatsoever. > > But I just feel it's not fair to hide the open source nature of Qt and > > the open source contribution completely from qt.io. When the > > unification was announced, it was said that the open source qt-project > > would continue to be represented, but i just feel it's no longer the case > > with the new website. > I agree. It's important to make it clear that Qt can still be used under > FOSS licenses for free, and that Qt contains a large proportion of code > contributed by individuals and companies outside of The Qt Company: > > http://www.macieira.org/~thiago/qt-stats/current/qt-all.employer.relative.pn > g > > By not making it easy for people to see that it is possible for them to > contribute Qt and making it easy for them to get on board with the process > we are harming the project. Having a guide to making your first > contribution would be great, and perhaps having a support person available > to help mentor new contributors would be nice. > > Kind regards, > > Sean > -- > Dr Sean Harmer | [email protected] | Managing Director UK KDAB (UK) Ltd, > a KDAB Group company Tel. +44 (0)1625 809908; Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 > Mobile: +44 (0)7545 140604 > KDAB - Qt Experts > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Dr Sean Harmer | [email protected] | Managing Director UK KDAB (UK) Ltd, a KDAB Group company Tel. +44 (0)1625 809908; Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 Mobile: +44 (0)7545 140604 KDAB - Qt Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
