Developing Yelp [was Re: From the docteam meeting]

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Andreas Lloyd wrote:
>
> Don Scorgie wrote:
> ...
>> I mused on this a long while ago and came up with the following
>> proposal: In the "Help" menu, a new entry entitled "Report a bug" (or 
>> similar), which would fire up bug-buddy with most of the fields 
>> filled in (from which manual someone was viewing).
>
> Yeah, I considered that too - but seriously, who would ever look in 
> the Help menu of the Help application?

At least a thousand people have this month. (Don't ask me how I know 
that.;-)

>  I wanted something more spectacular.. ;-)
> ...
> I suppose that a short-term solution (until Yelp will be all 
> glittering Mallard goodness) would be to add something to the coming 
> DocBook export function that adds an extra line at the bottom of each 
> exported page with the text "Does this work for you? Share your 
> experiences, tips and tricks and improve the Ubuntu documentation"
> with a link to original exported page. That should be doable. I 
> suppose that is something I should get that Summer of Code student to 
> look at, instead.
> ...

I do think there should be one link at the bottom of every help page, 
but to ubuntu.com/support, not to the wiki. :-) On help.ubuntu.com, 
however, there would be room for both.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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