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Present a warm welcome to users on their first ever login. Also use this as an opportunity to present a "Tip of the Day" - which for now we will use to highlight auto-naming as this has been a common new user question.
pkg/backend/httpstate/backend.go
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| fmt.Printf("\n") | ||
| fmt.Print(opts.Color.Colorize(colors.SpecSubHeadline + " Tip of the day: " + colors.Reset)) | ||
| fmt.Printf("Resources you create with Pulumi are given unique names (a randomly" + "\n") | ||
| fmt.Printf(" generated postfix) by default. To learn more about auto-naming or to customize this" + "\n") |
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NIT: I think in prose we should use the term "suffix" and not "postfix" but if we use "postfix" elsewhere then I guess that's fine?
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Sounds good.
Btw @joeduffy @cnunciato and @bermudezmt would love your eyes on the text here overall in case we can make this generally more of a warm and inviting (+ helpful) welcome.
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I like it FWIW.
I do think it's worth reconciling with the get.pulumi.com script, since I think that nudges you to get-started also.
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Yes, I think we just went with "Get started with Pulumi: " for the installation scripts.
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Re: alignment with get.pulumi.com - we do indeed end that script with:
say_green "+ Get started with Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/quickstart"So there is a sense in which we will repeat this message along the path of "curl to download" then "run pulumi new or similar".
However, for brew users - which I suspect represents at least half of our end user new installs, they won't have seen the get.pulumi.com message.
I'm not sure of any better alignment that makes sense here - except to possibly expand the text around this in the welcome message a little more. If there are any immediate suggestions on that happy to take them, else this is something we can likely continue to improve going forward.
pkg/backend/httpstate/backend.go
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| fmt.Printf("\n") | ||
| fmt.Print(opts.Color.Colorize(colors.SpecSubHeadline + " Tip of the day: " + colors.Reset)) | ||
| fmt.Printf("Resources you create with Pulumi are given unique names (a randomly" + "\n") | ||
| fmt.Printf(" generated postfix) by default. To learn more about auto-naming or to customize this" + "\n") |
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Yes, I think we just went with "Get started with Pulumi: " for the installation scripts.
pkg/backend/httpstate/backend.go
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| fmt.Printf("\n") | ||
| fmt.Print(opts.Color.Colorize(colors.SpecSubHeadline + " Tip of the day: " + colors.Reset)) | ||
| fmt.Printf("Resources you create with Pulumi are given unique names (a randomly" + "\n") | ||
| fmt.Printf(" generated postfix) by default. To learn more about auto-naming or to customize this" + "\n") |
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| fmt.Printf(" generated postfix) by default. To learn more about auto-naming or to customize this" + "\n") | |
| fmt.Printf(" generated postfix) by default. To learn more about auto-naming or customizing a resource name," + "\n") |
pkg/backend/httpstate/backend.go
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| fmt.Print(opts.Color.Colorize(colors.SpecSubHeadline + " Tip of the day: " + colors.Reset)) | ||
| fmt.Printf("Resources you create with Pulumi are given unique names (a randomly" + "\n") | ||
| fmt.Printf(" generated postfix) by default. To learn more about auto-naming or to customize this" + "\n") | ||
| fmt.Printf(" see: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#autonaming." + "\n") |
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| fmt.Printf(" see: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#autonaming." + "\n") | |
| fmt.Printf(" see https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#autonaming." + "\n") |
Instead of showing the message only on the first-ever login, instead show on all interactive logins. We'll lean into the "Tip of the day" aspect here instead of the "thank you for signing up" aspect.
Present a warm welcome to users when they interactively login.
Also use this as an opportunity to present a "Tip of the Day" - which for now we will use to highlight auto-naming as this has been a common new user question.
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pulumi new: