Getting Involved

[Simon Marlow]

On 01/12/2013 08:53, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> 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.

The problem with Repositories is that it doesn't live under one of the 4 
main hierarchies (Building, Commentary, Debugging, WorkingConventions), 
so finding it is a bit tricky.  I've just added a link to it from the 
top WorkingConventions page so that should help.  I think perhaps it 
ought to be moved under WorkingConventions/Repositories.

I don't know about other people, but the way I most commonly query 
tickets is from the Roadmap page: pick a milestone and click on "active 
tickets".

Cheers,
Simon


>
> 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
>
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