On 24/09/2012 13:35, Jon Robson wrote:
So I had a brainwave about this over the weekend. The home page for the developer page should act like a personal appeal only with __developers__ as the writers.
I think a personal touch is a great way to explain to a would be developer to why they should care about our apis and our codebase. Hearing from real people with real problems that they are solving in the real world would be an extremely inspiring way to get new people involved
I think the home page should be written as a personal appeal to a new developer from ALL developers with links in the right places to the right thing. I think this should also be followed up by a randomised personal appeal from a developer himself - we should mix these between app developers, bug wranglers, feature developers, volunteers, employees etc etc
I've knocked up a first version here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Hub
In future I'd love to see banners ads asking people to donate development time pointing to these pages or at least see the donation page inform people that they can help in other ways.
Is anyone else excited about this idea or is it just me...?
That is an intriguing concept that could indeed work quite well to get people interested, but how many will remain interested after they encounter gerrit?