On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:23:00AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 08:09 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Does the Fedora Hosted FAQ or instruction sheet have a link to the location on the wiki describing how people can get by with fpeeps.o until their Hosted project appears?
All the info about the things you can do on fedorapeople is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org
Paul: Is there a specific case where someone was outraged by having to wait to get a fedorahosted project and stormed off to google code instead? And, frankly, do we care? Is our goal to get angry, impatient developers to host their code at fedorahosted?
Outraged, not that I'm aware of. That shouldn't stop us from seeing if there are specific improvements we can make that lower contributor barriers. Our goal is not to encourage angry, impatient developers, but simply to make sure that we make things as easy as sanity allows for everyone to work with our project.
I'll take on the role of $RANDOM_NONANGRY_DEVELOPER to demonstrate. I hear about Fedora Hosted from a marketing related activity like an article on the web or word of mouth from a friend or a list post. I google it and arrive at the top link, http://fedorahosted.org. Neither the FAQ nor the New Project instructions tell me that I have an alternative available, the fedorapeople.org route. A wiki search for 'git repo' or 'git repository' doesn't tell me either.
Wouldn't just adding a FAQ entry be an easy way to give people more information without requiring them to scour the wiki?
Patch attached as a suggestion.