Wiki-update: How to contribute page

[Simon Steinbeiß]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:57:17 +0100
Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org> wrote:

> I think its better to have a general contribute page for www.xfce.org
> [ie improve http://www.xfce.org/getinvolved] that points to pages in
> docs.xfce.org for more details (since those are more often expanded
> and improved).
> 
> Point is that the www website is still the central "entry" point for
> people and when visiting the docs or wiki you are looking for more
> detailed information. The website is also translated..

Agreed.

> That said I think there is too much information in 1 page when it
> comes to code contributions.
> 
> contribute/ (point to http://www.xfce.org/getinvolved for general
> info, sitemap for the detailed pages below like the start pages we
> have for manuals).
> contribute/documentation
> contribute/translations (moved from www.xfce.org, updated)
> contribute/bugs (or contribute/dev/bugs?)
> contribute/dev/start (index page)
> contribute/dev/backtraces
> contribute/dev/git/start (basic tasks, request account, etc, from
> http://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/git)
> contribute/dev/git/userrepos
> contribute/dev/git/some_more_detailed_stuff
> contribute/dev/releases (info from
> http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/individual-releases)
> 
> If we point more details in there (and we should) more individual
> pages are required else a newbie cannot follow.

Ok, how would you like to proceed? I'm fine with improving the getinvolved page too, it looks a bit naked at the moment (e.g. no links in the development section).

If you want we can split up the proposed "how to contribute" page from the staging site accordingly and move it to contribute/

After that, ppl could step up and improve it bit by bit or would you like to get this ready first in the staging site and then move it over at once?

> After this we should cleanup wiki.xfce.org because technically no
> technical manuals or documentation should exist there. It is there
> just for the crazy stuff and brainstorming.

Sounds good!

Cheers,
Simon