I agree with the motives of this, but isn't requiring that new developers personally interact via IRC just to get started an admission of defeat? That shouldn't be necessary, and there is no reason for it to be necessary. It's not necessary in other open source projects.
Ian. On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:06 AM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > As an alternate solution to the Ant/Maven discussion, here's a different > approach to attracting new developers... > > The complex "Get involved" guide https://freenetproject.org/developer.html > which currently says how to Git clone / obtain libraries / compile, shall > be > replaced by those 3 steps: > > > How to contribute to Freenet: > > > > 1. Install Freenet: By running Freenet, you can donate part of your > > diskspace and bandwidth to the community. > > > > 2. Chose a subproject you like and want to contribute to: > > https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Projects > > > > 3. Join the developers' chat on IRC at [link to webchat]. Tell us that > > you'd like to contribute to your project of choice: We will help you > > with obtaining the source code of your favorite project; and tell you > where > > you can find its TODO list. > > This avoids the problem of build systems entirely by offering newbies to > help > them personally with compiling. Thats a good idea anyway since we'll never > be > able to make *ALL* sub-projects use the same build system. > > Further, it is more focused on what a new developer is probably interested > in: > *What* to work on, not *how* the work will look specifically in terms of > command line tools. > > The sub-project list https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Projects should > provide > an up-to-date overview since I spent quite a few hours on completing it > just > the last week. I'll also make sure to keep maintaining it, as I think > having a > full list of all software built on top of Freenet is absolutely mandatory > for > being able to finally get everything bundled-by-default. > > Credit for discovering that the current "Get involved" guide is too complex > goes to Steve! Thanks! :) -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
