This has been discussed in the distant past, but nothing materialized.
It would be a good idea to have a landing page dedicated to core contributors to help them get started and/or get a glimpse of the status of the project on GitHub. I’m not referring to the actual instructions that we already have on Github, but rather a simple overview of the key things going on with the project.
I really like this idea. I think it would be a good way of welcoming new potential contributors to the project. I think the list of areas to cover is comprehensive - I can’t think that anything else is needed - maybe new tickets awaiting first response - but perhaps that should be more of a core function.
I wanted this, but was told to not add this since “developers expect these docs on git”
However, I agree we need it, of course, because to discover that doc is probably not as easy as it could be, and also, git doesn’t help us score in the web, but content on our websites does.
I think Get Involved page needs to be broken down into smaller target audiences with additional pages for each. Mixing everything together just confuses everyone.
So the page would lead visitors to the page based on their skills. Maybe:
Core Development
Plugins & Themes Development
Marketing and Design
Documentation
And we would have a page for each with relevant information. For Core Development this would include listing GitHub issues as described in the original post.
Having individual pages specific to skill sets would also be good for social media sharing.