I use Jenkins but haven't been part of the developer community
historically, so some user/outsider perspective may be of interest. Of
course, I'm not claiming to speak for all users:
On 10/6/2015 6:17 PM, Gus Reiber wrote:
The way I see it is this... to be a good site, the site needs to have a
lot of fresh and quality content.
I don't think the Internet needs another site trying to generate
content, come up with "something to say." The Jenkins website is not a
news site nor a trade journal. It is a place people go to download
Jenkins or to find documentation.
We don't get site traffic until the site is good.
Respectfully, I think this is mistaken. The way to get "traffic" is to
create a good product that people want. If people want to download
Jenkins, they aren't going to think to themselves, "Well, Jenkins is the
best open source CI server, but I'm not going to download it because
their website is ugly." The site is a means to an end, and that end is
downloading Jenkins or finding documentation.
The Jenkins site should get traffic because people want to use Jenkins.
Not because they think they might find good articles or "content"
there. We all deal with enough "information overload" already. I think
putting some documentation up about best practices is a good idea, but
the idea of the Jenkin's website pushing articles in my face, trying to
sell me on stuff, asking me to subscribe, etc. makes me want to vomit
and likely would lead to me avoid visiting the website entirely,
possibly even to looking around for a different CI tool.
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