Mickael,
Comments below.
On 30.09.2017 20:49, Mickael Istria
wrote:
On Saturday, September 30, 2017, Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
work on the
source code for any particular project [...] git clone [...]
Gerrit URI [...] Oomph
All this is way too fine grain of contribution for most
users.
Yes, that was my point. And not just that it's too fine grained for
most users, but also too fine grained to implement pervasively...
I would stick to a visible link to a web page that also
includes testing and donations, which are a more accessible way
to contribute for many users.
I'm also
skeptical about who will actually do all the work to realize the
good ideas in this thread...
Let's avoid turning any discussion into a resource assignment
one and keep discussing and prioritizing ideas without sending
pessimistic messages about our ability to deliver value from
them.
Optimistic, pessimistic, or realistic, in the end good ideas need to
be implemented otherwise they simply become content for a mailing
list archive. There are a lot of good ideas in this archive.
As a matter of fact, I think some of the proposals I made are
simple and valuable enough for me (or maybe some teammate) to
work on them in EPP with a good priority.
That's great to hear! I think adding a link to a Contribution page
on the Welcome page is an excellent idea and is most certainly an
easily containable task.
Before I do so, I was curious about which ones other people
would be against in order to prioritize subitems. Andrey already
gave concrete feedback. Anyone else?
I agree with Andrey (except I feel the fine grained stuff is too
fine grained) and I agree with Torkild (an addition to the Welcome,
not a replacement for it).
It's good to ask up front because if you do anything that's too
in-your-face (popups) it will definitely annoy people. For example,
with Oomph we tried the "Welcome Questionnaire" (Window ->
Preferences -> Oomph -> Setup Tasks -> Start Welcome
Questionnaire...) that would pop up automatically once (and never
again) to address the very serious, though easily addressed problem
of setting of contentious default preferences to your own personal
preference, i.e., the very preferences that are general fodder for
why "I hate Eclipse", but in the end that was deemed too disturbing,
so the problem remains despite efforts to solve it, and that doesn't
generally make a guy so very optimistic. You can be quite sure that
anything in the direction of popups is very likely to result in the
same pessimistic feedback...
I expect a few of us will be willing to help provide content for a
contribution page when such a page is easily reachable via your
proposed implementation effort.
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