On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 6:24 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > To make it so, in r1875216 I've added a top-level Experimental Features
> > section, moved all experimental stuff there, and in particular, made a pretty
> > significant refactoring of all the shelving text.
>
> LGTM, thanks!
Thanks for reviewing it, and so quickly.
More below...
> > r1875217 improves the look of the end of the document, where we had a bunch
> > of h2 sections in rapid succession, none of which contained very much text.
> > My ulterior motive here is to make Enthusiastic Contributors Welcome a bit
> > more visible. :-)
> >
> > Feedback welcome.
>
> Not related to your changes, but it'd be nice if the mentions of #svn
> and #svn-dev were links, either to irc://chat.freenode.net/ (what's the
> URI scheme for IRC/SSL?) or to webchat.freenode.net. We have multiple
> examples of both elsewhere on the site.
>
> In fact, all those places would benefit from spelling out the "Don't ask
> permission to ask your question" and "After asking, wait for an answer"
> aspects of IRC. It might be worthwhile be nice to have a canonical
> landing place — e.g., a section on /mailing-lists.html — that both gives
> the links and explains these expectations, and then have all other links
> point to that one rather than directly to *.freenode.net.
>
> Though of course that's no longer about 1.14…
I think Julian suggested something like this previously and it has
been in the back of my mind for the eventual website reboot. I like
the idea of a consolidated "contact us" type page, including mailing
lists and IRC. In the meantime, yes, the IRC info could be added to
/mailing-lists.html without too much trouble.
This reminds me: On /mailing-lists.html, we have links to gmane. AFAIK
that's long gone, so probably those should be removed.
I'll try to free up some cycles for that...
Nathan
Received on 2020-03-16 01:24:53 CET