1378471 - Create new Pontoon homepage

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Pontoon, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Matjaz Horvat [:mathjazz]]

It's great that Pontoon homepage serves as about and demo page, explaining the basics of the tool and also allowing visitors to quickly test it.

OTOH it's not very helpful for onboarding new localizers, because it doesn't have any meaningful call to action, nor does it make Teams and Projects pages discoverable.

As the first step, we could simply use the Teams page as the homepage and move Pontoon Intro to a subpage, available on e.g. /demo or /about or /intro.

We could also create a more sophisticated homepage, probably focused on onboarding newcomers.

Comment 1

[Rémy Hubscher [:natim]]

I've seen that the homepage is hardcoded as well, so that if you disabled pontoon-intro project it returns a 404 for new users.

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon

https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/commit/0de14a6e2505751b6cdb4494883e2931a777d034
Fix bug 1378471: New Pontoon homepage (#1002)

The new Pontoon homepage has been designed and developed by @shkamaru
during Google Summer of Code 2018. It presents Pontoon as the place to
localize Mozilla projects, instead of an in-context localization tool
as it was the case in the past.

It explains the whys and hows of localization at Mozilla, introduces a
clear call to action to start contributing to Mozilla localization and
moves in-context localization demo to a separate page. It also links to
a guide tour and makes Sign in link more visible by moving it from the
profile menu to header.

It resides in a standalone Django app, pontoon.homepage.