[dpdk-web] update of "Contribute" page

[Jill Lovato]

+1

Let us know if these changes need to be made on our end.

Thanks,
Jill

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:09 AM Trishan de Lanerolle <
tdelanerolle at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Looks reasonable set of changes.
> Trishan
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019, 11:04 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to propose an update of this page:
>>         https://www.dpdk.org/contribute/
>> It is supposed to be a welcome page for contributors of any DPDK project,
>> not only the core one. So we can remove some redundancy with the page
>> about contributing to DPDK Core.
>> One more change: we have a new code.dpdk.org service to advertise.
>>
>> We can keep this introduction:
>> "
>> DPDK is an open source project, with the main code BSD licensed and Linux
>> kernel related parts are naturally licensed under the GPL. We welcome and
>> encourage anyone who is interested to contribute and participate in the
>> project.
>> "
>> The second part of the introduction requires some changes:
>> "
>> The collaboration is based on git and emails. Coming patches are listed
>> in patchwork. Bugs are open in bugzilla. The Technical Board may
>> intermediate in the development process, as described in the Technical
>> Board operation.
>> "
>> The link on "git" must be changed to http://git.dpdk.org so that it
>> covers all repositories.
>> The link on "emails" must be to the following section listing all
>> mailing-lists.
>> The link on "patchwork" must cover any possible new project:
>> https://patches.dpdk.org
>> The sentence about the roadmap is removed because specific to Core.
>> The link on "bugzilla" must cover all projects: https://bugs.dpdk.org
>>
>> We should add a sentence to link to the "Contribute" page of the Core
>> project:
>> "
>> The main project has specific informations for contributors.
>> Other projects have their own documentation.
>> "
>> with "informations for contributors" being a link to
>> https://core.dpdk.org/contribute
>> and "documentation" being a link to https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/
>>
>> The next section "Get the Code" can be replaced by a list of links to
>> services
>> available to the contributors:
>>         - Code - code.dpdk.org
>>         - Repositories - git.dpdk.org
>>         - Patches - patches.dpdk.org
>>         - Email archives - inbox.dpdk.org
>>         - Bugs - bugs.dpdk.org
>>
>> The section "Mailing Lists" should stay as is.
>>
>> The section "Ways to Contribute" is an old copy of the Core project,
>> so it should be completely removed from this general page.
>>
>> Any comment?
>>
>>
>>

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*Jill Lovato*
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The Linux Foundation
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