Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:30:27 GMT From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@mod3.co.uk> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/97233: [patch] Change the "Report a Bug" link on the home page Message-ID: <200605171130.k4HBURpW083852@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR www/97233; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@mod3.co.uk> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/97233: [patch] Change the "Report a Bug" link on the home page Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:19:57 +0100 On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 03:16 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-05-13 23:51, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@mod3.co.uk> wrote: > > The FreeBSD.org home page currently has a "Report a Bug" link > > in the "Shortcuts" section. While I'm not even sure this > > should belong on the first page potential users see, without a > > doubt it shouldn't link directly to the form that users should > > fill in > > Why? This would make it more difficult to locate the form for > submitting new bug reports :( Because in my opinion, anybody submitting a bug report for the first time would benefit from reading the information on http://www.freebsd.org/support/bugreports.html before submitting one - and once you're on that page it really isn't hard to find the "submit a bug report" link. This is vaguely connected to pr www/97234 as well. I also don't think "Report a bug" looks good where it is on the front page. Explicitly listing it second of the six quick links on the front page has the potential to suggest that it's a link new users may need a lot - not something that we want to suggest! In no way is "Report a bug" as important as the link to the Handbook or the ports information, especially in the context of somebody considering trying FreeBSD for the first time. I fully appreciate that it's an important link to have readily available, although I would still question the sense of linking directly to the submit form rather than giving the option of searching (which may reveal a solution to the issue the end user is seeing without even needing to submit a new PR). Thanks, Gavin
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