Hey On 2/8/08, Lloyd Budd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello bug bashers, > > I have some fresh eyes, and wanted to record my experience before > getting used to how it works. > > The path is a bit long to find you > > Repro: always > Steps: > 1. Go to http://www.gnome.org/ > > 2. Click Contribute tab -> http://www.gnome.org/community/ > Note: this page may have a bit of an identity crisis. Is this "The > GNOME Community" or "How to contribute". Its presentation is likely > overwhelming to a person new to GNOME. Compare this to the experience > at Ubuntu Community > Get Involved > http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate > Note to self: need to propose better experience for > http://wordpress.org/ . There is a clue in that Ubuntu URL as well, I > also prefer the term "participate", as it is inherently more active > than "contribute" > > 3. Sucker! You really want to be at http://live.gnome.org/JoinGnome > > 4. Here lies a fork in the road http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad or > http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade . BuildBrigade short description > could explicitly say "test automation" near the beginning or similar, > and the route to it is probably from within both testing and > development. > Note: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove seems misplaced in the whole > participate experience. > > Actual results: > Took at least one more step, probably two, to find you then I would expect. > > > > Now, I can already here some of you saying, "Well its easy for you to > point out problems, lets get solution oriented!", or "It's a wiki, so > update it." Sorry, for now, all I got is problems. >
Well, in my opinion your report is positive since it includes suggestions and not only problems. Thanks for the time to tell us about this, on a quick look I agree with most of your comments, we should try to make a very straightforward path for anyone interested in contributing, something with huge buttons and little text. I personally like the idea of "profiles", let's say "I'm an artist" so you are presented with options for an artist to help, etc. There's a nice video about something very similar done with the simpsons characters in a Debconf, it's in Spanish though. What do others think? Any opinion from the web team (cc'd)? greetings! Diego _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
