Hi Christian, >Hi Louis, > >On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:15:33AM -0800, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: >> >Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> [snip] >> >> I as well thing that developers will know how to find their pages, >> >> so better call it "Contributing" (we have a nice contibuting page) >> > >> >If the "development" tab is replaced by a "contributing" tab that goes >> >to the contributing page I'll be happy. Somehow I'm not holdin gmy >> >breath. >> >> The Development pages are not at all the same as the "Contributing" >> pages. > >That's right, but this is exaclty the reason why having it on the >front-page is not desireable. I thought the general agreement is >"target the front page for end-users/newbies".
That's a major target, to be sure, but not the only one. We also want newbie developers :-) > >> Let's say we add to Development landing page two buttons: >> >> * Contributing Code * Contributing Other Works >> >> With the bottom one sending people to "Contributing" pages. >> >> The top tab could then read, "Contributing." >> >> But that makes it one step more difficult for those who are not >> already developers of OOo to find out how to become such. That is >> why I prefer to have a tab that says, "Developer." To make it seem >> as if we are interested in *new* developers. > >Developer sounds like "pages restricted to developers" (what it >currently is). Restricted? Not rather where those who think of themselves as developers go? You mean: "Restricted to existing developers"? But I am not persuaded of that. We deployed that term and page following the pattern of Mozilla. That does not mean much, as they do not have a "contributing" link. > >So the opposite makes more sense: Have the tab read "Contributing" and >link http://www.openoffice.org/contributing.html > >This page already has the "programming" as well as "other ways". I know... My primary interest, is, like yours, to reduce confusing redundancy. Thus: * i am perfectly willing (obviously) to see about changing Development link to "Contributing"--following the logic I sketched above. I'm concerned that having only the "Contributing.html" page pointed to would cause developers to be rightly annoyed that they must go: homepage -> contribtuting.html --> contributing/programming.html --> development.html before they find out about all the developer stuff. As a solution, we could replace the link to "programming.html" with the development category (http://development.ooo) which might work better. This would mean: index.html -> contributing.html -> development/index.html > >The current developer-page is more suitable for a "ressources" section. That really depends, don't you think, on what is meant by "resources"? >ciao >Christian Best Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
