Re: [Tails-dev] Contribute section of the website: categorie…

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Autor: intrigeri
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Betreff: Re: [Tails-dev] Contribute section of the website: categories
Hi,

sajolida@??? wrote (16 Sep 2013 11:33:42 GMT) :
> On 14/09/13 17:06, Alan wrote:
>> 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.


> I disagree here. I don't see this work are try only trying to come up
> with categories to order a bunch of links. Now I am more trying to
> identifying roles or skills, that possible contributors can identify
> with, and point them to the relevant tasks. If a role only points to one
> task, then that's fine with me. A stronger, but somehow related,
> limitation for me would be to stick to a number of roles that good
> enough to structure and present our roles.


I concur.

>>>> - 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.


> I'd don't really care about how well this section is classified. We
> don't have problems to get mirrors, and people are already pointed to
> that page before that and more systematically, from the download page.


(OK, let's assume our mirror pool is sustainable if we remove this
link from the "How to contribute" section -- we can always try it and
see what happens.)

I'm not quite comfortable with the idea of dropping some important and
very real ways of contributing from this list, as is done in the
`Without "Server administrator"' proposal. It feels a bit like
negating the actual work people are doing. I'm unsure how important
this really is, but I thought I would mention this
uncomfortable feeling.

Anyway, this may not matter much, as maybe a "System administrator"
category will be needed anyway: there's been work done since the
summit towards being able to have a contribute/sysadmin page, so at
some point we surely want to add a link about this kind of work (I
would say by the end of the year). I'm not sure how it integrates with
the existing proposals, but perhaps we would be better off taking this
into account right from the beginning.

> So I created two mockups which both our proposals on the blueprint.


Thanks! It does help me think about the whole thing.
I'm generally happy with the first proposal.

One thing that bothers me slightly is where tasks like writing press
releases would fit in. Right now, the place it fits best is probably
the "Spread the word" page. However, it's listed in "People person",
and I doubt people skilled at writing PR things would necessarily
identify as "People persons", and then they could look at the "Content
writer" category and get lost (because they don't feel like writing
documentation). Perhaps we should have:

  * Writer
    - Improve documentation
    - Write press releases [points to "Advocate Tails" page]
      (could surely be phrased better)


  * Speaker
    - Talk at events [points to "Advocate Tails" too]


... then rename "Spread the word" to "Advocate Tails" (and possibly
rename the page altogether from contribute/how/promote to
contribute/how/advocate), and split this page into two big sections,
one being for speakers, the other for writers of PR and alike?

Thoughts?

Cheers,
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