Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Hi
I'd like to see if people are interested in adding a new tab to the
homepage:
>Developers<
it could point directly to the main developer wiki page plus also have
links for *bug reporting and bug reports.*
Louis et al--
I think this might be useful, but why not retool the actual development
site itself to make it a bit more functional/usable?
http://development.openoffice.org/
see below for more...
The pro argument includes:
* makes it easier for developers. Right now the "contributing" tab is
ambiguous, as it must be--it's comprehensive. Further, Mozilla has
"developers" and in the interest of a common language, it would help.
well it IS somewhat ambiguous but this page clearly has a Programming
link-- and *that* is very straightforward. The main problem area from my
point of view is what happens AFTER this, the development page.
I think having yet another Development type link will only make things
more confusing/ambiguous from a navigational standpoint. Retooling the
main Development page seems more worthwhile to me. I think one of the
development project leads even responded to my comments about this some
time back, but nothing has been done. :(
I DO think that as the wiki encompasses more than just development
issues, that the wiki itself should be linked from the home page with
some VERY clear explanation of what its use is, however.
The con argument includes:
* makes it confusing, as "contributing" already exists, even though we'd
remove "programming" if we have 'developers'.
yes!
The basic assumption is that all or virtually all users hitting the
homepage are endusers and not developers.
well but it serves many purposes as we've discussed before. If I were a
"developer", I wouldn't have a problem figuring out Contributing is
where I need to go.
best,
louis
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
===========================================================
Kay Schenk
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
-- Simone Weil
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
