"Getting involved" on dlang.org?
bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 1 16:28:16 PST 2015
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 21:01:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Wouldn't it make sense to have "Getting involved" on the start
> page of dlang.org? Most OSS projects feature something like
> this on their homepages. In this way, if somebody feels like
> contributing to D, they get the how-to info straight away
> (preferably not on Wiki, but on dlang.org).
>
> There is a lot of low hanging fruit, stuff that doesn't even
> require coding. We should make it as easy as possible for
> people to get started contributing (cf. [1]). Thus, it would
> make sense to structure a "Getting involved" page along these
> lines:
>
> 1. code (Phobos, dmd etc.)
> 2. enhancing the documentation
> 3. enhancing/extending the homepage
>
> When I started with my first humble contributions, I could only
> make it happen, because I got tips here on the forum (and per
> email). But people should be able to dive right into it, after
> reading "Getting involved"
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> [1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mpom8f$2eta$1@digitalmars.com
The wiki page is pretty good right now. A link to it from the
home page titled "Getting Involved" would do the trick. I don't
think it's a good idea to put anything more than necessary on
dlang.org, because it takes an act of Congress to get it changed.
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