We need to keep talking about the name of the tab because it does IMHO illustrate something pretty fundamental about the site. To start, I agree that according to the dictionary "Contribution" is probably the correct term. However, in this case, the dictionary does not help us.
The key is that the tab represents our marketing to a person who might be potentially interested in getting involved with the project. As with all marketing, it is not about what -we- think, but what the other person thinks. If all potential contributors think yellow sites have the good projects and all other sites are not worth their time, we better make our site yellow .. :-) This is a question of principle, do you listen to the other person and try to understand them, or do you shout your own opinion and demand they put up with it? On the internet you better listen, some other site is only a single click away. So I did a quick unscientific sampling of some open source project sites to see what -they- put in their tab. We want to make the site easy to use so looking at other sites should give us an idea about what people are familiar with: www.mozilla.org: "Developers" www.gnome.org: "Developers" www.kde.org: "Develop" www.opensuse.org: "Participate" www.debian.org: "Developer's corner" www.gimp.org "Getting Involved" www.freebsd.org "Developers" www.ubuntu.org: "Community" gcc.gnu.org: "Development" kernel.org: - www.apache.org "Get Involved" So the votes are: "Develop*" 6 votes "Get* involved" 2 votes "Participate" and "Community" 1 vote each 1 blank On 8/25/06, Christian Lohmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well - newbies shouldn't start with CVS but get the source-tarball instead. But if you want to download using cvs, then click on either
Sure, we would love that to be so. However, the tarball of 2.0.3 does rarely build. And nobody else builds the tarballs so newbies get no help when they inevitably have problems. Just scan [EMAIL PROTECTED] and count the number of successes where someone built 2.0.3 from the tarball ..IMHO. the source tarball download is detrimental and should probably be removed or hidden somewhere as deep as the CVS is currently.. :-)
[cloph is talking about kernel.org] There is a link to a page that apparently lists some instructions on how to access it using git, but it is inaccessible.
All the links labelled "git" on kernel.org work for me. If this was an issue it was temporary. I still maintain my thesis that the number of external developers correlates directly with the ease of finding the source.. Excercise: Order the following projects by the number of external developers: kernel, mozilla, OO.o. Then order the projects by number of clicks from homepage to find working source. Find the inverse correlation. ;-) -- Kai Backman, Software Engineer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
