On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/1/20 Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> >> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Rayne <disciplera...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Aren't you a developer? >> >> I'm not a CCW developer. >> >> > If a code.google link is the top of google results, that's what I'm >> > going to click and check out first. code.google is a project hosting >> > site, not just a place to throw up code and developer discussion. >> >> Yes, I know, but the general pattern is that those types of project >> hosting sites tend to host developer-centric material -- that is, >> material mainly of interest to developers *working on that project*, >> not just developers *using* it to develop *something else*. > > Not in my experience
Yes in mine. Here, I just pulled up a semi-random SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/civicrm/ Quite terse, though there's a big friendly download button. Files leads to a directory view of assorted stuff, Support refers you off elsewhere and has little else, and Develop and Tracker are definitely not useful to an end-user not planning yet to contribute bug reports and patches. The nicer user-centric site is, of course, http://civicrm.org/ which is linked (not with very prominent-sized links) from the main SourceForge page and the support page. (Nicer, in this case, is relative; the site's front page, at least, is reminiscent of corporate sites that are big on glamor and buzzwords and not so big on clear, entry-level information to quickly tell the new visitor what they probably want to know. A bit more text and a screenshot might have been nice.) Anyway, I figure the typical user quickly learns to look for the .com or .org and steer clear of jumping from a SERP directly to a SourceForge, Google Code, github, or similar page unless it's absolutely necessary, or until they have been using the software for a while and feel the urge to try to contribute to its development. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
