Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
| Summary: | Projects page should point to newsgroup; not newsgroup archive | ||||||||||
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| Product: | Community | Reporter: | Ian Skerrett <ian.skerrett> | ||||||||
| Component: | Website | Assignee: | phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox> | ||||||||
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |||||||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||||||
| Priority: | P3 | ||||||||||
| Version: | unspecified | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | PC | ||||||||||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||||||||||
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| Bug Depends on: | 134275 | ||||||||||
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Description
Ian Skerrett
As documented in the "explain..." link on the /projects page (see http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status-infrastructure.php), each project provides their own meta-data. Either (a) you should bugs against each project and later (b) we can reopen a bug like bug 109221 to automatically audit and suggest meta-data improvements to the projects. Not sure why this was closed WONTFIX -- it would be infinitely more convenient for our users to access the newsgroups directly, rather than to point to a useless archive. As documented in the explain: # Nw (Newsgroup) - the project's newgroup for user discussions The archive doesn't allow for discussion. And there's a typo in newsgroup. All the required information is already in project-info.xml - the name of the newsgroup is all we need. /projects/index.php builds the URL to the archives, so why not simply have it refer to the news portal? A patch will follow. Created attachment 65380 [details]
Patch to change the newsgroup URL to point to the newsportal
Created attachment 65382 [details]
Update to /projects/explain/projects-table-columns-2.php
This patch fixes a typo and adds the Registration Required blurb in the newsgroup explanation.
Created attachment 65384 [details]
Respin of explanation patch
Previous patch was bad - link was on the wrong line.
You're right - what was I thinking? Anyway, I committed your patches - thanks. |