[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web/documentation: remove "Reporting bugs" section

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 16:37:28 CET 2012


On date Thursday 2012-12-27 00:40:45 +0100, Alexander Strasser encoded:
> Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Wednesday 2012-12-26 14:26:53 +0100, Alexander Strasser encoded:
> > > Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > > > Stefano Sabatini <stefasab <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > -Want to report a bug? Help us help you: The FFmpeg
> > > > > -developers will be able to better diagnose the problem if you follow
> > > > > -<a href="bugreports.html">these bug reporting guidelines</a>.
> > > > 
> > > > Isn't this a useful paragraph?
> > > 
> > >   I agree with Carl Eugen that redundancy is good for this instance.
> > > 
> > >   Also it is not taking away much space. To make it leaner one could
> > > omit the section heading and print the "report a bug" fragment in
> > > bold font.
> > 
> > I consider that annoying, since "reporting bugs" is irrelevant and
> > distracting if you want to read documentation. Want to report a bug?
> > Want to eat a pizza? No, I want to read documentation.
> 
>   You have your point, too. But I think some people want to read
> documentation to find out how to report bugs. OTOH they might as
> well find the tab to the right of documentation on the homepage.
> 

>   So well, I won't insist on keeping the bug reporting section
> of the documentation overview.

I applied, since the new text is simpler and there is a "Reporting
bugs" tab in the main navigation bar.
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