Re: [Caml-list] Ask questions on the mailing lists too

[Sam Kuper <sampablokuper@posteo.net>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:43:17PM +0100, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> I don't have any experience with Discourse contributions, but a key to
> a successful upstream contribution is always good communication (early
> and often) with the upstream maintainers. In fact, I guess that the
> first course of action would be to survey what has already been done
> accessibility-wise for Discourse (see for example
> https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-audit-and-shepherd-for-making-improvements/66620/6
> ,
> https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-a-screen-reader/178105/27)
> and understand the current status.
> 
> After looking a bit more at this: it looks like the Discourse people
> are taking accessibility seriously, and it's possible that just nobody
> pointed out the issues with the mailing-list registration to them.
> Just doing this (studying how accessibility feedback is given, what
> information maintainers are asking form, and then sending feedback on
> the mailing-list registration question) could be a good first step
> before working on contributing the code ourselves.

Unfortunately, participating in the Discourse threads above requires
registration on meta.discourse.org .

Catch-22.

Sam

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