On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Hiemanshu, > > Hiemanshu Sharma wrote: >> Please see my reply to the bug, #fedora now needs registration to >> enter, it would be nice to have a link to the freenode faq with the >> nick setup part. > > Yep, I noticed that¹ and mentioned it in #fedora-websites as the > reason I held off on pushing this change. > > Though to be fair, the registration has existed for a long time and > wasn't mentioned previously. Adding it seems like a fine idea, but > the bug in question was specifically about the switch from Pidgin to > Empathy. And Eric's patch don't cause any regressions in the help > text. > > It seems reasonable to treat the lack of information on registration > as a separate bug/missing feature. I'm sure patches are welcome there > too. Any takers? > > ¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610977#c3 > > -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and > ability. > Hiemanshu does make a good point, here's what i propose: --- diff --git a/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-help.html b/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-help.html index 18ab794..2fc84be 100644 --- a/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-help.html +++ b/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-help.html @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ <h3>${Markup(_('Real Time Support (IRC)'))}</h3> <p>${Markup(_('If a problem requires real time support, with somebody to explain each step and deal with any problems as they arise, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is the ideal solution. Fedora has a <p>${Markup(_('To access this support launch Fedoras default instant messaging client, Empathy, and choose Accounts from the Edit menu. Add a new account, and select IRC as the protocol. Next, s + <p>${Markup(_('Note: You will have to <a href="%s">register with Freenode</a> in order to access the #fedora channel.' % 'http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#userregistration'))}</p> <h3>${Markup(_('E-mail Support'))}</h3> <p>${Markup(_('Some users prefer to take advantage of mailing lists to get help. The advantage of this method is that by subscribing to a mailing list it is possible to discover common problems --- Sijis -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
