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[OH-Dev] A visual flowchart for Open Source Comes to Campus (or: a thread *not* about a big ball of code)

Asheesh Laroia lists at asheesh.org
Wed Sep 5 23:24:05 UTC 2012


Excerpts from Mark Holmquist's message of Wed Sep 05 19:11:23 -0400 2012:
> > In preparing for the upcoming open source comes to campus, I made a
> > visual flow chart of the steps it takes to get a patch accepted into an
> > open source project. The flow chart is only on paper at the moment, and
> > it'd be cool to make it some HTML-y thing. Any takers? (:
> 
> We also talked about how it would be relatively simple to make this 
> dynamic, i.e., you can keep track of your progress. We could use local 
> storage options (jQuery has some nice plugins for this) and avoid 
> needing a backend. Maybe also allow storage of notes, relevant links, 
> and so on.
> 
> If Asheesh was kidding about that part of it, I certainly wasn't, having 
> an interactive portion would be really helpful.

Yeah, I totally agree with the interactive-ness suggestions.

It's not a strict requirement, though; I'd consider a version-two type 
feature.

-- Asheesh.


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