Hi Allan,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Carlos Soriano Sanchez <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Allan,
>
> So if we continue with the wiki, most of the points I pointed before
> continue to be a problem...
>
> New jhbuild/git/whatever tutorials will came up... people won't find the
> appropriate one given that the wiki
> is not official.
>

Echo this. The developer.gnome jhbuild instructions are quite misleading
because they are not up to date. Yet, this is where newcomers are
rightfully, most likely to look first and to trust most.


> i.e. people say: it's a wiki, just modify it! Which is true, but I don't
> think we want that
> for something like this.
> Some people will prefer one tutorial over the other, and we will continue
> to link different
> tutorials and continue maintaining all of them and having to deal with a
> mix set up of the newcomers
> and newcomers will continue to be confused going back and forward on
> different guides.
>

This.

Carlos seems to be doing a good job of empathising with newcomers in this
proposal and personally, I think his assessment is pretty on the money.
Tutorials need to be trustworthy, current, comprehensive and provide step
by step guides to really be able to help a newcomer get to grips with a
concept or skill in certain cases e.g. jhbuild. Carlos has identified a
barrier newcomers face when they are learning about GNOME and his suggested
solution seems pretty sensible.

We can agree on something like this wiki tutorial is the one we recommend,
> but we can't enforce it
> at all if we not move to a official page like developers.gnome.org
>
> So if it is a matter of logical splitting about 3rd party apps and Gnome
> contribution, I don't think it matters that much
> in practice no?
>
> What do you propose to fix these problems if not? This is the only idea
> that came to my mind.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos Soriano
> _______________________________________________
> desktop-devel-list mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
>
_______________________________________________
gnome-doc-list mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list

Reply via email to