[Development] Qt-Project misrepresented on qt.io

[Sean Harmer]

On Tuesday 19 April 2016 13:19:34 Kojo Tero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Point taken. The open source side does need to be more clearly visible.
> 
> Currently the developer page is structured more toward the new user, with
> the idea that more experienced users will visit again and find more
> content, like the contribution guidelines.
> 
> So the improvement idea can be split in two parts:
> - Provide a clearer path for potential contributors to get involved in Qt
> - Make it more clear that Qt is available as open source
> 
> In practice the wiki does have a pretty good set of "how to contribute"
> pages, but a new user will not stumble upon them by accident. Making links
> to those from the developers page would probably help a lot. Also having
> the contribution guide in the wiki is beneficial from my point, as then
> anyone contributing can improve the guide.
> 
> The other side of the coin is crowding the developer page with information.
> A page about contributing might be a solution, or then a rethink of the
> developer page. The new brand style actually provides better tools for
> cleaner information presentation. I'll talk with a web developer about how
> to present the information and start trying things.
> 
> The other point on making the open source side more visible needs more
> thinking. It probably can be achieved partially on the developer page, but
> it needs wordings in many places.

Thanks Tero, much appreciated.

Sean

> 
> Tero
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development
> [mailto:development-bounces+tero.kojo=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Sean Harmer Sent: tiistaina 19. huhtikuuta 2016 15.42
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt-Project misrepresented on qt.io
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 19 April 2016 12:50:20 Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > I feel that with the unification, there is less and less visibility of
> > the Qt open source project:
> > The qt.io home page contains no information that Qt is open source and
> > contains contributions from the community; The "Developers" section,
> > to which http://qt-project.org redirects, mostly contains information
> > for developers using Qt, (and more than half seems to be marketing
> > targeted for people not yet using Qt) and only a very small paragraph
> > near the end seems somehow targeted to contributors; Any links or
> > aggregation to planetqt seems gone. Planet Qt is supposed to be an
> > aggregation of the blogs of Qt contributors.
> > 
> > It was much better in 2015 where the developers page contained
> > information for contributors
> > http://web.archive.org/web/20150723065217/http://www.qt.io/developers/
> > 
> > I think there should be a "Contributors" section from qt.io  where qt-
> > project.org would redirect. And which would have links useful for
> > contributors, including links and aggregation of planet qt.
> > 
> > I acknowledge that The Qt Company is by far the biggest contributor to Qt.
> > And that because of the CLA, they have no obligation whatsoever.
> > But I just feel it's not fair to hide the open source nature of Qt and
> > the open source contribution completely from qt.io. When the
> > unification was announced, it was said that the open source qt-project
> > would continue to be represented, but i just feel it's no longer the case
> > with the new website.
> I agree. It's important to make it clear that Qt can still be used under
> FOSS licenses for free, and that Qt contains a large proportion of code
> contributed by individuals and companies outside of The Qt Company:
> 
> http://www.macieira.org/~thiago/qt-stats/current/qt-all.employer.relative.pn
> g
> 
> By not making it easy for people to see that it is possible for them to
> contribute Qt and making it easy for them to get on board with the process
> we are harming the project. Having a guide to making your first
> contribution would be great, and perhaps having a support person available
> to help mentor new contributors would be nice.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Sean
> --
> Dr Sean Harmer | sean.harmer at kdab.com | Managing Director UK KDAB (UK) Ltd,
> a KDAB Group company Tel. +44 (0)1625 809908; Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090
> Mobile: +44 (0)7545 140604
> KDAB - Qt Experts
> _______________________________________________
> Development mailing list
> Development at qt-project.org
> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
> _______________________________________________
> Development mailing list
> Development at qt-project.org
> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development

-- 
Dr Sean Harmer | sean.harmer at kdab.com | Managing Director UK
KDAB (UK) Ltd, a KDAB Group company
Tel. +44 (0)1625 809908; Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090
Mobile: +44 (0)7545 140604
KDAB - Qt Experts