Here's a work slate: http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html. Something a little more structured would be even better:
- Quick description - Links to discussions &c - Who to talk to if you're interested in working on it. Take a look at the language it uses; the page is an advert. If you want to target user-devs, you don't want to be using stackoverflow, you want to be using the Castle website. And no, I really don't think the issue tracker is enough. A casual browser (and everyone starts off that way) can't even look at it without registering. Then he'll discover it's completely non-standard (I know why, but it's still friction). Then when he finally succeeds in drilling down, he'll find that the recent versions aren't even registered in the tracker. It may be useful to a committer, but it's not going to make any sense to a first time visitor. I know it keeps coming up, but the website isn't really designed with a visitor in mind. I know it's not intentional, but the whole experience gives the impression of friction and neglect. Example: The current website has a link called "Get Involved" two levels deep. It's not that easy to find, and then it leads to the subversion repositories. A published roadmap would help as well. At the moment, I can find out that the version of Core that comes after 1.2 will be called 1.3, but not what will change. Even seriously big ticket items such as "it's being merged with DynamicProxy" are nowhere on the site. Ultimately, I'm not sure what the ad thing is hoping to achieve. J On 15 March 2010 18:27, Mauricio Scheffer <[email protected]>wrote: > Not sure what you mean by "a work slate, with compartmentalized > sections"... isn't the issue tracker enough? That's what most open > source projects have as the main work collaboration tool. Or maybe you > mean posting UserVoice content directly on the site? > > Honestly, I don't expect developers to see the ad and think "hey this > Castle thing looks like a cool project, I wonder what I can do for > them". They probably want to become users first. In fact I originally > thought the catch-phrase to target user-devs, not dev-devs, but > stackoverflow specifically wants ads to ask for collaborators. > Developers that are Castle users already know where to find us, so IMO > they don't really belong to the target of the ad. > > Anyway there's still time to change things, the ad isn't on the list > yet: http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/all > > Cheers, > Mauricio > > On Mar 15, 2:09 pm, Julian Birch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not to rain on the parade, but if the ad works, it's going to attract > > outside > > developers. The first thing they'll ask for is a work slate, with > > compartmentalized sections they > > can take. We should really have something published on the site (and > yes, > > I'm aware of UserVoice). Otherwise the ad's going to be useless. > > > > Julian. > > > > On 15 March 2010 14:56, James Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > And we seem to be one of the fastest rising ad. We're up to 20 votes > > > now, and of the 30 or so ads posted in the last six weeks, only > > > Python, NotePad++, and SQLite (nice company) are ahead of us. (The > > > original call for ads was posted over 3 months ago, so we have a ways > > > to go to approach some of the early ones, but with 3 more votes, we > > > move onto the first page of the question) > > > > > Truth, > > > James > > > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Mauricio Scheffer > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I posted this one on meta.stackoverflow.com:http://bit.ly/9eNHig > > > > It needs at least 6 votes to show up on the website. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Castle Project Development List" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<castle-project-devel%[email protected]><castle-project-devel%2Bun > [email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Castle Project Development List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<castle-project-devel%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Development List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en.
