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hsitter commented Dec 18, 2017

Along a similar note as #155 the existing appdata does poorly in specifying ways in which to onboard users as contributors (except for maybe the translate url type)

To aid in turning users into contributors it may be interesting to provide urls to dev resources. To easily distinguish them from regular URLs I'd put them in a <developer> tag:

  • homepage (dev landing page; could be a dev wiki for example)
  • chat (IRC/gitter etc)
  • mailing list
  • VCS browser (e.g. github repo page)
  • maybe actual VCS URLs (git repo; hg repo; etc. may be tricky to properly support this so perhaps only provide a VCS browser url instead)