svn commit: r1639283 - /directory/site/trunk/content/contribute.mdtext

[pi...@apache.org]

Author: pierresmits
Date: Thu Nov 13 10:08:39 2014
New Revision: 1639283

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1639283
Log:
JIRA issue DIR-311: rewording of the 'contribute' page to make it more appealing and inviting to participate. Adding the other 'textual' paragraphs.

Modified:
    directory/site/trunk/content/contribute.mdtext

Modified: directory/site/trunk/content/contribute.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/site/trunk/content/contribute.mdtext?rev=1639283&r1=1639282&r2=1639283&view=diff
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--- directory/site/trunk/content/contribute.mdtext (original)
+++ directory/site/trunk/content/contribute.mdtext Thu Nov 13 10:08:39 2014
@@ -24,8 +24,34 @@ But you can help us and yourself more!
 As we are a community of volunteers working with the guidelines and policies of the Apache Software Foundation (the Apache Way) in mind, we welcome any kind of input you can provide to get better products. 
 These contributions, whether you think of reporting bugs, supplying code enhancements, improvements to our documentation, answering questions in our mailing lists or anywhere else are valuable to us. Because these will help us in helping you.
 
-You can also consider donating in other ways to the Apache Software Foundation. Look for more information on that subject at this pages: [resource donation](http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html) or [sponsorship program](http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html).
+You can also consider **donating** in other ways to the Apache Software Foundation. Look for more information on that subject at this pages: [resource donation](http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html) or [sponsorship program](http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html).
 
+So, you consider **contributing** to our project. But how do you go about achieving this?
+Well, it is as easy as pie. The first thing youÕll need to do is **subscribe** to one of our mailing lists (see the overview below) and youÕre set to go to deliver your first contribution: a posting there, about how great our products are, what you found missing, or even the bug you got confronted with. 
+You might even consider a more interactive approach and join the team on our IRC channel.
+
+After you have had your first contribution over and done with, it stays **easy**. You can:
+* reply to questions, and/or share your viewpoint on how issues could get resolved
+* add to our FAQ or WIKI
+* share your code and documentation patches through our issue management solution (JIRA)
+* evaluate bugs and proposed improvements provided by others within our team
+* help with outlining and evaluating the future direction of our project and the development iterations of our products.
+
+To make it more explicit, we are looking for:
+* Source code (bugs and improvements) contributions
+* Documentation assistance
+* Product and feature suggestions
+* Detailed and/or constructive feedback
+* Articles (case studies, white papers, etc) and presentations (speeches) about how our products helped you.
+
+But the list is not limited to the above! If you feel we missed something there, please **let us know**.
+
+
+Again, we thank you and look forward to seeing your first contribution.
+
+**The Apache Directory Community**
+
+OLD
 To begin with, we suggest you to subscribe to the [Directory Mailing Lists & IRC](mailing-lists-and-irc.html) (follow the link for information on how to subscribe and to access the mail list archives). Listen-in for a while, to see how others make contributions.
 
 Then you can :