[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] Fix check for Python modules for cross-compilation

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Jan 18 13:18:42 UTC 2014


Peter, Simon,

On 2014-01-18 01:06 -0000, Peter Newman spake thusly:
> Taking on board what you said, I've put together a small page on our site
> about how to contribute:
> http://www.openlighting.org/ola/developer-documentation/contributing/
> 
> As someone a bit external to the project, and a recent contributor, would
> you mind just taking a quick look at it to confirm it gives the sort of
> information you were looking for before?

OK, I was a bit puzzled when browsing the openlightning.org website.
Navigating from the homepage down to the contributing section is not
straightforward.

What is strange here is that he homepage has those shortcuts on the
banner[*] : Overview - People - Supporters - History

Plus a big button to download OLA. But no info on how to contriute to
OLA. I had expected to find something like "contacts" or "Developpers"
right on the frontpage.

OK, so I hover over "Download OLA": it's not an archive, but point to a
page labelled "getting-started". *That* sounds like a good starting
point, indeed. *Click*

>From there on, here's the path I followed:
  -> Download & Install OLA
     -> Install From Git
        - section of "Install on Linux"
        - no infro on how to contribute

Ok, what was this link Peter sent me, BTW? Ah, there is
"developer-documentation" in the link. But I can't see a page labelled
"developpers" or some such.

Hmm.. Wait! The banner does not contain the same items as the homepage
does! And there *is* a "Developpers" item, now! Yes, it;s a menu!
Yes it has a "Contributing" section. Aha! Good! :-)

So it all boils down to the fact that the homepage and the rest of the
website does not contain the same items in the banner. I think it would
be much more helpful to have the same banner acros the whoel website.
After all, this banner should be a way to quickly go to interesting
sections.

But, hey, the info is there and it took me only a few minutes to find
it. So that's not so bad in the end.

All the required info I needed is there on that page, so that's good.
Thank you for providing this; hopefully, that will make it easier for
people to send their contributions. :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

[*] Sorry, I'm French and don't know what this part is called in
    english. I roughly tranlstated from the french "bandeau".

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