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Re: Guiding people on their first visit to dev.launchpad.net

 

Matthew and I did this, by the way.  Please take a look; improvements
welcome.

-Karl

Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I've popped an "I want to..." table on the help wiki front page:
>> https://help.launchpad.net/
>> Any thoughts?
>
> Yeah: that I really like it!
>
> We do something like that on dev.launchpad.net.  I'm doing some wiki
> work tomorrow (Monday) anyway; I'll have a look.  
>
> But, we do want to be careful and not just copy the technique raw.  One
> important difference between help.l.n and dev.l.n is that with help, a
> user might really just want to dive in and learn all about, say, bug
> tracking while totally ignoring code hosting, or vice versa.  But with
> dev, there's an ordering: you pretty much have to get the code before
> you can build it, build it before you can patch it, patch it before you
> submit the patch, etc.  If we don't take that ordering into account,
> we'll just confuse people.
>
> But basically, I think that table rocks, yeah.  Let's try to have
> something like that in the dev wiki.
>
> -Karl
>
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