Hi Olivier, On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > >Because in order to search for something, you need to know it exists. > > > >If you are just casually browsing, then the search can't help you. > > I don't think people casually browse our repos. What use case is more likely > to happen and do we want to support?
We don't really want to discard use-cases just because it does not suit our workflow. That is not how we are going to gain new contributors, we should value each contribution, be it drive-by contribution, or focused contribution towards one single project. > Use case 1 : Jerry learns about KDE and go in their forge in the Multimedia > section. After carefully reading the code of two applications and three libs > he starts contributing to Elisa. > > Use case 2 : While using her Ubuntu installation of Elisa / while reading on > reddit about Elisa, Jerry decides to try to contribute to this project/fix > this bug that itches her and searches for it in KDE's forge. Let me add a some more usecases, some of which I've been dealing with in project I maintain. Use case 3 : Tom comes in Plasma Mobile channel and asks for Plasma Mobile applications source code Use case 4 : Tom is a student in Germany and is interested in contributing to wikitolearn, and he asks where can I find code of the wikitolearn? Suggestion offered by sysadmin team does not cater to one single use-case, but offers a way to provide a solution to all 4 usecases. For Plasma Mobile team or Wikitolearn team it would be much easier to refer contributors to the https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile or https://invent.kde.org/wikitolearn then tell them to go to https://invent.kde.org/KDE and search for the tag wikitolearn or Plasma Mobile. > On the other hand, I think the discussion about spotting open merge requests > (in a derived thread from this one) should be answered, being by relevant > tags, subgroups or whatever. (super personal note) Ironically, Usecase 1 is how I started contributing to KDE 7 years back. While I was inspired by battery monitor re-design in 4.11 release, I wanted to work on "something" so I did literally browse through various repositories to find something where my technical capabilities were enough to work on [1]. Back then it was projects.kde.org (chiliproject installation). [1] https://blog.bshah.in/2013/09/01/hello-planet/ -- Bhushan Shah http://blog.bshah.in IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode GPG key fingerprint : 0AAC 775B B643 7A8D 9AF7 A3AC FE07 8411 7FBC E11D
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