Getting Involved

[Jan Stolarek]

Herbert, Austin,

right, I didn't notice link to Newcomers is on the "Working on GHC" page. I rearranged it slightly 
by reversing first three steps. So link to Newcomers is now first on the list and I think it 
might stay that way. Link to "Working on GHC" is also in the second paragraph of the main wiki 
page, so I think we're good.

As for the sidebar I'm using it on a regular basis although I feel some links could be removed: 
Documentation -> Repositories; Debugging; View Tickets -> By Milestone; By OS; By Architecture; 
But that's only my opinion - I'm CCing ghc-devs so others can chime in. If we could somehow track 
how often each link is used that could be a valuable information. Not sure if it can be done.

Janek

Dnia niedziela, 1 grudnia 2013, Herbert Valerio Riedel napisał:
> On 2013-12-01 at 09:00:21 +0100, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> >> perhaps a direct link in the sidebar or maybe even a link on the front
> >> page in Developer Documentation section would be appropriate!
> >
> > I added link to Newcomers page at the main page of Commentary.
>
> btw, I'm confused a bit... there's already a rather obvious
>
> "Joining In"->"Working on GHC" link in the side-bar, which points to
>
>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions
>
> which then points you to the steps that are expected from newcomers,
> including the 'Newcomers' page as the 3rd step; once could maybe just
> add more emphasis to the 3rd step so that it visually stands out better
> (e.g. via [2] or [3])
>
> I'm just worried that cluttering the side-bar[1] with a redundant link
> may make it less useful.
>
> > Don't have the permissions to add it to the sidebar though.
>
> ...the reason is btw, that it's a hacked in HTML fragment that's part of
> the custom Trac stylesheet mod for GHC; it can't be edited via the
> web-UI.
>
>
>
>  [1]: which, personally, I find kinda overloaded and redundant which
>       makes me wonder if it's really that useful in its current form;
>
>
>  [2]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WikiBoxes
>
>  [3]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WikiIcons