Re: [ide-dev] Link from inside Eclipse IDE to how to contribute

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is never worth spamming users.

 

From: ide-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ide-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mickael Istria
Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 9:20 AM
To: Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ide-dev] Link from inside Eclipse IDE to how to contribute

 

Hi,

 

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anything intrusive like that during startup is a no go for me and considered spam.

 

That is indeed spam. The underlying question are:

* Is it worth spamming users? (if this brings a good amount of contributions, it can)

* Where is the line between "reminder" and "spam"? Once a month?

* Isn't it fair for an OSS IDE to sometimes remind users about the rules?

 

> * A menu item in the Help menu
Fine with me.

 

The Gerrit patch I linked earlier adds that.

Despite I could argue on why spamming can be good and fair, I have the impression that this Contribute item in the same menu as "Eclipse Marketplace" and "Check for Updates" is actually visible enough (people see it a few times a year at least) to "fish" some new contributors, and I'm not convinced any of the other proposals I made -including spamming- would be more efficient to have more users actually reading the page.

 

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Mickael Istria

Eclipse IDE developer, at Red Hat Developers community

Elected Committer Representative at the Eclipse Foundation board of directors