Re: Proposal to make GnomeLove official and move it to developer.gnome.org

[Magdalen Berns <m berns thismagpie com>]

Hi Allan,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Carlos Soriano Sanchez <csoriano redhat com> wrote:

Hi Allan,

So if we continue with the wiki, most of the points I pointed before continue to be a problem...

New jhbuild/git/whatever tutorials will came up... people won't find the appropriate one given that the wiki
is not official.

Echo this. The developer.gnome jhbuild instructions are quite misleading because they are not up to date. Yet, this is where newcomers are rightfully, most likely to look first and to trust most.

 

i.e. people say: it's a wiki, just modify it! Which is true, but I don't think we want that
for something like this.
Some people will prefer one tutorial over the other, and we will continue to link different
tutorials and continue maintaining all of them and having to deal with a mix set up of the newcomers
and newcomers will continue to be confused going back and forward on different guides.

This. 

Carlos seems to be doing a good job of empathising with newcomers in this proposal and personally, I think his assessment is pretty on the money. Tutorials need to be trustworthy, current, comprehensive and provide step by step guides to really be able to help a newcomer get to grips with a concept or skill in certain cases e.g. jhbuild. Carlos has identified a barrier newcomers face when they are learning about GNOME and his suggested solution seems pretty sensible.

We can agree on something like this wiki tutorial is the one we recommend, but we can't enforce it
at all if we not move to a official page like developers.gnome.org

So if it is a matter of logical splitting about 3rd party apps and Gnome contribution, I don't think it matters that much
in practice no?

What do you propose to fix these problems if not? This is the only idea that came to my mind.

Cheers,
Carlos Soriano

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