I’m sure this has been discussed but I can’t for the life of me file a CQ right now. I recall being confounded the last time I filed one a couple weeks ago. The user/developer experience for this is terrible! Sorry for venting; but when you can’t do what should be the simplest thing … Argh!
Here’s what I did:
* Then I clicked the “New” link at top-right.
* This took me to simple page, mostly white that said just this:
The Contribution Questionnaire has been moved to the portal. Please access it in its new location: http://portal.eclipse.org/
So I clicked that link.
* I was presented with a login form. I logged in.
* At this point I’m lost. I believe this is called the “My foundation portal” there is an Eclipse Projects portlet and a Profile portlet. The profile one is probably not right so I focus my attention on the projects portlet. It shows I’m a committer & project lead for Spatial4j, with a link. And it has a “Tools” link for all committers, it says. I clicked on “Tools”.
Okay at this point I answered my question for the 3rd go around as I typed up my experience. I was supposed to click on the “View” link for my project, which then brought up a menu of options and one was for a CQ. Clicking Tools was not the right path.
Note that I *did* view these instructions:
But I think the instructions and picture are at a minimum misleading, and at worst just plain wrong. I went down another wild goose chase following these. Perhaps the instructions there are out of date; I don’t know.
~ David Smiley
Freelance Apache Lucene/Solr Search Consultant/Developer