[PATCH] Update get-help to reflect new default IRC client

[Sijis Aviles]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Sijis Aviles <sijis at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> 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
>>
>> --
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>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>>
>
> 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 &lt;a
> href="%s"&gt;register with Freenode&lt;/a&gt; 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
>

Anyone have concerns/comments with this patch?

Sijis