Re: [orgweb] Making the git repo URL more visible

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Hi Timothy,

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 10:10 AM Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> > Just now I found myself needing to look up the URL of the Org git repo,
> > and it seemed a bit harder than it ought to be.  It’d be nice if there
> > were a prominent “source code” link on the front page, but I remembered
> > that it was somewhere on the “Contribute” page, so I opened that.
>
> > When it loaded, I still overlooked the URL to the git repo.  I was
> > expecting to see some kind of “Source Code” header, or “git repo” link,
> > but instead the link is “The Org Codebase”, and it’s not under a header
> > or near any other text like “source code” or “git repo”, so it seems
> > easy to overlook:
>
> Thanks for bringing this up. I agree that it should be more prominent. My
> instinctual response is to change the text, add an icon, and bump the font size
> up. Perhaps make it a /button link/ like “Tools that work with Org” on the
> homepage. I’d be tempted to put it on the homepage, but I’m also wary of
> clutter, and I’m hoping that the use of the common Git branch icon may clue devs
> into thinking that the repository is linked/given on that page.
>
> Do you have any thoughts on that?

Maybe this is moot, since Bastien already added the link to the home
page, but anyway...

On the Contribute page, I'd be in favor of having some kind of
heading, like "Source Code," and listing the git URL in text for easy
copying (i.e. not hiding the URL behind a descriptive link).  It'd
also be good to have a clickable link to view the repo on Savannah.

Also, on that page, while I'm glad to have Bastien's sponsorship links
there, the "GitHub" link with the GitHub icon might be expected to be
a link to the git source code, because that's a common way to link to
a git repo on other projects' sites.  So it might be good to put them
under a heading, like "Sponsor Development".