On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The Getting Involved page is not for you, it is for completely new
> users coming to the community. HACKING is completely useless to those
> people, or at least completely overwhelming. I do not see any intent
> to hide HACKING. The only reason it is hard to find is because you
> are specifically looking for something called HACKING as if that is
> some kind of universal standard that anyone else would be looking for.
> The link to the file was already easily acceptable from the expected
> places.
No, it wasn't linked anywhere on the sidebar. It wasn't even
mentioned on the top-half of the "Getting Involved" - the only link I
found is in the second-to-last bullet point of that page. In my
school of web design, that is a very hidden link. So, it must mean
that the content is very un-important to us. I feel that the content
is much more important and deserves a more prominent shout-out.
>> I really dislike how we keep punting around one of the community's
>> most important files simply because...
>>
>> So, no, we need to emphasize that content even more - which means it
>> needs to be in the NavBar somewhere. I'm open for ideas how to best
>> do it, but the previous state of things was simply not acceptable in
>> my opinion. -- justin
>
> Sorry, I do not buy it. It sounds like the issue is just that you
> want it called HACKING. If the existing link had called it that, I
> doubt that you would have had any trouble finding it. How many people
> do we really have to educate on the name change? 20? If that is too
> much to handle, then fine call it HACKING. It still does not belong
> as a link in the nav bar.
I am not attached to the phrase "HACKING" at all - I'd be fine with it
called "Developer Guide to Contributing to Subversion" on the sidebar,
but I felt that was too long and would cause the text of the page to
shrink considerably. I am very open to other names for the side-bar
link - as long as it makes it clear what the content is.
This content is simply too important to this community to hide several
levels down. I'm sorry that you don't see it's value, but I feel that
document is probably the *most* important document we have as a
community. -- justin
Received on 2010-02-03 16:53:03 CET