Responses Over 100 people responded to the Hackage usability survey. For a qualitative survey this was far more than expected so thank you all for contributing. I'm still going through the responses and will post a csv of
Vote and comment In the meantime I went through and collated all of the gripes and suggestions people made into two Trello boards: Suggestions board: https://trello.com/b/WJRNDtkD/hackage-usability-suggestions Issues & bugs board: https://trello.com/b/8YSJ5XYV/hackage-usability-issues If you have a Trello account (it's free to register) you can comment and vote on issues. Please vote on the issues/suggestions you think are the best or most important. Feel free to make any relevant comments on the cards as well. To vote simply open the card, look in the "Actions" section and select vote. That's it. If reading through the suggestions/issues makes you think of something new simply comment on the very top card and I can add your new suggestion to the list. What happens next? There are two things that I want to achieve: 1. Come up with a list of simple, easy to implement changes that can be done on Hackage/Haddocks 2. Come up with wireframes for a potential future state of Hackage that
Not every suggestion is going to be feasible regardless of how popular it is. Additionally, any suggestions which are feasible have to be implemented by someone. The more enthusiasm there is behind an idea (or issue) the more
Thank you Rick. This looks like a great start to a list of well-defined
manageable tasks which we can act upon to improve our ecosystem.
I will make sure to mention this list at the hackathon in London tomorrow.
Matt
On Friday, October 9, 2015, Rick Dzekman