From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francis Irving Subject: Bug reporting method too hard to find Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:58:57 +0000 Message-ID: <20141029115857.GB33348@bat.dot-bit.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 29 13:39:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjSXK-0005Xb-0d for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:39:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932797AbaJ2Mje (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:39:34 -0400 Received: from haggis.mythic-beasts.com ([93.93.131.52]:38603 "EHLO haggis.mythic-beasts.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932759AbaJ2Mjd (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:39:33 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2432 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:39:33 EDT Received: from [93.93.130.55] (port=46898 helo=sphinx.mythic-beasts.com) by haggis.mythic-beasts.com with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XjRu0-0000Kc-Cu for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:59:00 +0000 Received: from secure.pacec.co.uk ([93.93.130.55]:50330 helo=bat.localdomain) by sphinx.mythic-beasts.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XjRtz-0007Q6-5C for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:58:59 +0000 Received: by bat.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 502) id 0558652AF4DD; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:58:57 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Mythic-Sender-Verify: + host 64.233.166.27 accepted RCPT TO with '250 2.1.5 OK fu14si5931588wjc.11 - gsmtp' X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 X-BlackCat-Spam-Score: -11 Received-SPF: softfail (secure.pacec.co.uk: transitioning domain of francis@scraperwiki.com does not designate 93.93.130.55 as permitted sender) client-ip=93.93.130.55 envelope-from=francis@scraperwiki.com helo=bat.localdomain Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org I could not find out how to report a bug. In the end, a colleague had to tell me. Some suggested improvements: 1) Explicitly mention the word "bug" on the home page, or have a page which Google will find called "Reporting bugs". 2) I did eventually get to the Community page: http://git-scm.com/community Alas, when I scanned the headline "Mailing List" I ignored that whole section because I didn't want to join a mailing list - I just wanted to report a bug. I'd call it maybe "Mailing List and Bug Reporting". Or have a separate bugs section below called "Bug Reporting" which refers to the mailing list. 3) I definitely wasn't going to subscribe to a mailing list to report a bug (no idea why - I'm just reporting my instinct which lots of people likely have). I am only doing so because I saw that I don't have to subscribe. I'm not sure how to make it clearer, but it needs to be as it is highly unintuitive. These days, you have to join most email lists to post to them. This all matters, because Git is likely losing lots of basic bugs, particularly ones to do with usability for beginner users. Thanks for a great tool! Francis