On 07.10.2015, at 14:51, Christopher Simons <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. We're not going to sell things. Well, except for Jenkins-related events like the Jenkins User Conferences, but I think those have a place on the Jenkins site. We're not going to require subscription to just consume content. There's not going to be a pay-wall, or even a subscribe-wall. If technically possible, any contributions will only require a GitHub account, or a Jenkins community account, which you already have if you've edited the wiki or filed a bug. However, there's still a lot left to write about in more or less regular posts. Recent blog posts I've written include highlighting cool, lesser known plugins, tools related to Jenkins, and news about the Jenkins project itself. I think it would also be interesting to also link to what others write about Jenkins. Not to garner pointless comments, but to inform people about what's going on with Jenkins and give them new ideas what they can do with it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/0F738FB9-CC91-407D-9757-01B7855FC2B9%40beckweb.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
