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

[Sijis Aviles]

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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Hiemanshu does make a good point, here's what i propose:

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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
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Sijis