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Redesign of the www.rockbox.org front page
DancemasterGlenn:
--- Quote from: saratoga on April 29, 2009, 07:38:27 PM --- particularly to new developers unfamiliar with our work.
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Honest question... do you get a lot of those? I feel like most developers who come to Rockbox alreay have some idea of its purpose and workings. It just seems weird that a prospective developer would just stumble across this site on a lark.
Llorean:
Where else would new developers find useful information about Rockbox?
I'd imagine the typical process is "hear about Rockbox from friend / article, visit website, learn more about it." I doubt very much the developer learns much more about it before they get here. There's not too much familiarity it's possible to have before you visit the site.
GodEater:
And I doubt very much that said prospective developer would reach the front page, see no evidence of svn activity, and assume the project was dead and there was nothing going on.
If we have a link to this suggested "dev" pages right there on the front page, I'd imagine they'd probably follow it.
Llorean:
There is still the point that some users have sounded off about being interested in SVN activity.
And it makes it very clear to someone even just skimming that we're still quite active, and very recently so.
An SVN log doesn't have to be obtrusive. Just the last 5 updates, toward the bottom. It's definitely more interesting to users than "Wiki changes" and the mailing list are likely to be.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: Llorean on April 30, 2009, 03:49:54 AM ---There is still the point that some users have sounded off about being interested in SVN activity.
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And all of those users know where to find it even if it's not on the front page.
--- Quote ---And it makes it very clear to someone even just skimming that we're still quite active, and very recently so.
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Interesting that so many other OSS projects manage to do without it right there on their home page. I really don't understand what's so special about our svn activity that it has to be there as the very first thing a new visitor sees.
--- Quote ---An SVN log doesn't have to be obtrusive. Just the last 5 updates, toward the bottom. It's definitely more interesting to users than "Wiki changes" and the mailing list are likely to be.
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Yeah, I don't think they should be there either to be honest. Not in any more obtrusive a way that the dynamically hidable way macku's currently done it for subversion anyway.
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