"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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