[Tails-dev] Contribute section of the website: categories

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Author: Alan
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
CC: carmie
Old-Topics: Re: [Tails-dev] Contribute section of the website: some ideas
Subject: [Tails-dev] Contribute section of the website: categories
Hi,

Seems like we get closer to a nice list!

> >    - We added the "User" role that's not in there.
> >    - What I called "Have language skills" is split here in "Content
> >      Writer" and "Translator". I think that makes sense.

>
> Yes, probably... unless someone finds a wording that doc writers,
> translators (and promoters, if "Spread the word" is moved there as you
> suggested previously) can all identify to.
>

I think we must find a way to group this, as a category with only one
item is kindof useless. I think that a category should have 2 to 4/5
items.

> > So we could have:
>
> > - User
> > - Report bugs
> > - Provide needed input to developers
> > - Help other Tails users
> > - Make a donation


> > - Content writer
> > - Improve documentation
> > - Translator
> > - Improve Tails in your own language


I really think we should group these into "Have language skills" or
something like that.

> > - OS developer
> > - Fix a bug
> > - Implement a new feature
>
> I fear that "OS developer" may be too specific and needlessly
> excluding many people who don't identify as OS developers.
> "Software developer", perhaps?
>

Yes.

> > - Server administrator
> > - Setup a BitTorrent seed
> > - Setup a HTTP mirror


It have been suggested in a previous email to group these two.

We might also want to group the two previous categories (developer and
administrator) into one "Have computer skills" as you suggested before.
I'm however unsure whether it would be less appealing to sysadmins.

> > - People Person
> > - Spread the word
>

This one only has one item it it… but I fail to see how to group it
without loosing too much info.

> > We don't have anything to put under "Designer" for the moment but we
> > might at some point.
>
> We do, see my previous email :)
>

So:

- Designer
- Improve the website design -> contribute/how/website

But that's yet another one-item category…

> That makes 7 categories. Much better than the 12 links we now have,
> and probably easier to convey graphically in a meaningful way.


New proposal would be:

* User
- Report issues
- Provide needed input to developers
- Help other Tails users
- Make a donation

* Have language skills
- Improve documentation
- Improve Tails in your own language

* Have computer skills
- Fix a bug
- Implement a new feature
- Setup a mirror

* People Person
- Spread the word

* Designer
- Improve the website design -> contribute/how/website

It seems me nice but the to last one-itemed categories.

Cheers