QA/Community/QMO Discoverability/2009-04-02

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Disclaimer

  • These are a set of notes for a brainstorming session about current issues with community involvement via QMO. They are, by no means, a reflection for any sort of planned project template.

Notes

Expectations

  • keep it simple, start with a single button and make it linear on to how to join
  • need an established audience or set of audiences to gear the website towards
    • people that are experienced have an easy path to where they want to go
    • people that aren't experienced are given a chance to find out where they want to go
    • can't worry about one size fits all, pareto principle
    • have a super simple and easy UI like webkit
    • audiences: mozQA, developers, tech-oriented interested parties, non-techy interested parties
  • need users to feel empowered
    • lots of testers during release testing, not as many consistent contributors
    • simplify tasks, but makes sure they're things that the volunteers can write home about

Workflow

  • get involved -> what are you interested in? what are our projects about? what do they do?
    • identify simple tasks and point them towards them first?
    • don't assume everyone wants to start with simple projects, some might be very experienced
  • identify major contributing community members in a big way
    • schwag!
    • pictures on the front page (via mozQA blog) with their names
    • friends of the tree
  • major project pages for nav bar
    • tools and code shouldn't be separated
      • code pages are project pages that people can join or find contact info to join them
    • Change forums to "Communicate" to include IRC within a webpage and newsgroups listings as well (co-join Keeping Up with Mozilla?)
  • Blogs will be put on the front page
    • moz QA blog
    • possible: mozQA members
  • Add a second sidebar for simple action items
    • file a bug, ran some testcases, open to other action items
    • this should replace the quick links section
  • Account section should just be at the top
    • log out button at the top as well
    • take out the bottom left edit user section

Things to Add

  • fix any bugs! there are currently 81 in the queue
  • need more info on tools pages
    • docs and tutorials for each tool
    • better summaries, have each tool owner explain their tool in less than 50 words
  • litmus ownership on the litmus page

Things to Remove

  • stories, tasks, my bookmarks
  • bottom left edit user section

Action Items

  • Create a project page for QMO Discoverability
  • send out project page ideas to the newsgroups