Derek:
Welcome back. And by the way, thank you for all your work on Gnucash. I
benefit greatly from the work of everyone who makes this wonderful product.
On 2017-06-22 09:05, Derek Atkins wrote:
...At least I suspect it's "git" that's the barrier to entry and not the fact
that it's a raw
PHP-based website vs Drupal/et al....
I have a different opinion. I see the barriers to entry for a new
contributor to the website being (in decreasing order of importance):
1. not feeling empowered or capable: "such a big website", "not sure
where to start", "afraid I'll screw up"
2. hard to express the change I want to make in raw HTML: "how do I
format the table just right?" "What's the right URL for this link to
another part of the site?" "How do I keep my change visually
consistent with the rest?"
3. difficult to make changes that affect multiple pages on the site:
"how do I add another item to the navigation panel?"
4. how to open the website for editing, save changes, commit to
production: "how do I use git?"
A content management system helps #1 somewhat: the system will prevent
you from making a class of stupid mistakes if merely editing content.
It's a big help for #2 and #3. It's somewhat of a help for #4,
especially for simple changes.
The use of git seems to me to be a barrier primarily for #4, and not all
that relevant for #1, #2, and #3.
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