[jdf-dev] Review needed: Contributor guide

Rafael Benevides rafabene at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 13:12:13 EDT 2012


Sorry for the late answer.

In "Setting up your environment"

Shouldn't We split Required and Recommended Accounts ? I think that some
accounts like Gravatar, Digo and Ohloh are "recommended" . Am I wrong ?



2012/7/2 Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com>

> Staged to http://www.jboss.org/jdf/stage/about/contributing/
>
> I'll push live later unless I get negative feedback.
>
> Jonathan, if you still feel strongly about the presentation in the
> accordion, then can you file an issue in JDF, as I'm out of ideas about how
> to improve it right now, and want to get the content live at least...
>
> On 26 Jun 2012, at 23:20, Jason Porter wrote:
>
> > Perhaps a javascript hide and "page flip"? So just show one section then
> have a next. A TOC is a good idea.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jonathan Fuerth" <jfuerth at redhat.com>
> >> To: "Pete Muir" <pmuir at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: jdf-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:03:03 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [jdf-dev] Review needed: Contributor guide
> >>
> >> Hi Pete,
> >>
> >> It's a lot of information, but it's easy to follow. I think the level
> >> of information and the writing style are just right.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about the accordion device for revealing the content. I
> >> do understand it would look daunting and invoke the tl;dr effect if
> >> all the content was sitting there when the page loads. However, when
> >> trying to read the whole thing in sequence, I had to scroll back up
> >> to get to read the top of each section after clicking to reveal it.
> >> Not sure what's better. A TOC page with multiple subpages and
> >> next/previous links? Just one big page after all?
> >>
> >> Finally, a few corrections:
> >>
> >> * The text: We suggest updating the commit message to "Merge <Other
> >> Project Name> '<Tag>'"
> >>  Comes out as: We suggest updating the commit message to "Merge ''"
> >>  (the angle brackets are being treated as HTML tags)
> >>
> >> * Change "Each example lives in it's own repository" -> "Each example
> >> lives in its own repository"
> >>
> >> * Change "An example of it's usage" -> "An example of its usage"
> >>
> >> * Change "Release Proceedures" -> "Release Procedures"
> >>
> >> * Change "./dist/release-utils.sh -r" to "dist/release-utils.sh -r"
> >>
> >> -Jonathan
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Pete Muir" <pmuir at redhat.com>
> >> To: jdf-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 4:59:29 PM
> >> Subject: [jdf-dev] Review needed: Contributor guide
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I've put http://www.jboss.org/jdf/stage/about/contributing/ up. It's
> >> a first draft of a unified contributor guide for jdf.
> >>
> >> I've included:
> >>
> >> * setting up ruby etc. for building stuff
> >> * contributing guidelines
> >> * release process
> >>
> >> The things I'm not sure of:
> >>
> >> * is the location right (about/contributing, appearing in the About
> >> menu)?
> >> * should we embed the relevant bits in examples/get-involved etc.?
> >> * is the level of the info right (conveying relevant info, but not
> >> very hand holding)?
> >> * is there content missing that we need.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
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