On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 6:24 PM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > To make it so, in r1875216 I've added a top-level Experimental Features > > section, moved all experimental stuff there, and in particular, made a > > pretty > > significant refactoring of all the shelving text. > > LGTM, thanks!
Thanks for reviewing it, and so quickly. More below... > > r1875217 improves the look of the end of the document, where we had a bunch > > of h2 sections in rapid succession, none of which contained very much text. > > My ulterior motive here is to make Enthusiastic Contributors Welcome a bit > > more visible. :-) > > > > Feedback welcome. > > Not related to your changes, but it'd be nice if the mentions of #svn > and #svn-dev were links, either to irc://chat.freenode.net/ (what's the > URI scheme for IRC/SSL?) or to webchat.freenode.net. We have multiple > examples of both elsewhere on the site. > > In fact, all those places would benefit from spelling out the "Don't ask > permission to ask your question" and "After asking, wait for an answer" > aspects of IRC. It might be worthwhile be nice to have a canonical > landing place — e.g., a section on /mailing-lists.html — that both gives > the links and explains these expectations, and then have all other links > point to that one rather than directly to *.freenode.net. > > Though of course that's no longer about 1.14… I think Julian suggested something like this previously and it has been in the back of my mind for the eventual website reboot. I like the idea of a consolidated "contact us" type page, including mailing lists and IRC. In the meantime, yes, the IRC info could be added to /mailing-lists.html without too much trouble. This reminds me: On /mailing-lists.html, we have links to gmane. AFAIK that's long gone, so probably those should be removed. I'll try to free up some cycles for that... Nathan
