Improve the Rails Lighthouse overview page

rubyonrails-core
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Hello,

I have a suggestion to improve the Rails Lighthouse overview page. At present the description is very large. You need to scroll to find the tickets and more importantly the list of pages.

I think a shorter description along the lines of http://i48.tinypic.com/2z6a7lt.png would be much better. All the information at present in the description can be moved into pages, and they can be linked appropriately. Either via a page or from the description. Also all the pages will be listed below the ticket bins making them accessible at one go.

Cheers, Rohit Arondekar http://rohitarondekar.com

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I kinda like it. However, I would suggest putting more emphasis about they have to get their hands dirty to help us fix the issue, and I think it would be nice to add the link to "contributors guide", which is this one: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_rails.html

I mean, that guide is very well written, and really saved myself when I wrote my first patch :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Prem

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I suggest that a direct link from the Rails github web page to the Rails issue page at Lighthouse would make a useful addition. To open a ticket starting from the Github site with the present arrangement requires linking through to the 'weblog', thence to the Rails 'overview' and thence to 'bugs/patches'. That seems to me overly baroque for what should be a straight forward action.

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I like the idea to link the contributors guide, it's very thorough.

Actually the wiki on the Github Rails page has a direct link to Lighthouse. But yes it's kind of hidden. Why isn't there a small README with important links so you get them immediately on opening the github page? I wouldn't mind writing one.

I can't change the project description, somebody with the permissions will need to do it. I'm guessing core members have the rights?