Suggestion about meta-docs

I’m a bit of a an RT newbie. I like what I see, but
I’m having a somewhat hard time finding the info I need,
because it seems different pieces are in different places.

  1. docs for RT3 are in pdf on the web site.
    But no hacking guide, or FAQ. And did I
    miss it, or did it say how to configure
    for fcgi instead of mod_perl?

  2. fsck.com/rtfm is about RT2, yes? Which probably
    mostly applies to RT3, but I can’t tell what
    the differences would be, from the web site.

  3. There’s a page about rt-users mailing list.
    It has a link to the archives. But that archive page
    does not have a search form, nor a link to one.
    I accidently came across http://lists.fsck.com/search.html
    on another page.

  4. I was advised to check out a particular ticket on
    http://rt3.fsck.com. But it requires a logon,
    and nothing on that page tells me how to get one.

  5. I wanted to report a bug, and saw the advice to
    post to this list. (And the answer on this list
    was to see the above ticket in #4. Which would
    be great if I could see it.) However,
    I later came across rt-3.0-bugs@fsck.com for
    reporting bugs, from the README file of the RT3
    distribution. I was never able to find this
    address on the web site.

  6. There is a link on the web site for reporting
    bugs, but it just takes me to
    http://rt3.fsck.com//NoAuth/Buglist.html
    which is a fine list of reported bugs, but
    no search capability there, and no link for reporting
    a new bug.

  7. In some note, someone mentinoned a contribution area.
    I searched around a bit, but it took me quite a while
    to find a reference to http://www.fsck.com/pub/rt/contrib/,
    buried in comments in lib/RT/EmailParser.pm

  8. I also found a README.docs in the distribution,
    which mentioned rt-docs@fsck.com as a place to send
    questions about the docs. But nowhere else, so I’m sorry
    if I should have sent this there or to this list. Oh, well.

I don’t mean this as a big bitch. I like RT, it’s much nicer than
anything I would have written, and I particularly appreciate it
being available as open source. I’m just suggesting that a single
web page with links to all these things, a kind of “Guide to
joining the RT community”, would make things easier for
newcomers like me. When you already know where everything is,
this organization doesn’t seem as important.

bobg

(I’m replying here, though the actual work is being done in tickets)

I’m a bit of a an RT newbie. I like what I see, but
I’m having a somewhat hard time finding the info I need,
because it seems different pieces are in different places.

  1. docs for RT3 are in pdf on the web site.
    But no hacking guide, or FAQ. And did I
    miss it, or did it say how to configure
    for fcgi instead of mod_perl?

A lot of that content is waiting on us having time to finish the
user-facing RTFM 2.0 interface.

  1. fsck.com/rtfm is about RT2, yes? Which probably
    mostly applies to RT3, but I can’t tell what
    the differences would be, from the web site.

  2. There’s a page about rt-users mailing list.
    It has a link to the archives. But that archive page
    does not have a search form, nor a link to one.
    I accidently came across http://lists.fsck.com/search.html
    on another page.

  3. I was advised to check out a particular ticket on
    http://rt3.fsck.com. But it requires a logon,
    and nothing on that page tells me how to get one.

See #6 below.

  1. I wanted to report a bug, and saw the advice to
    post to this list. (And the answer on this list
    was to see the above ticket in #4. Which would
    be great if I could see it.) However,
    I later came across rt-3.0-bugs@fsck.com for
    reporting bugs, from the README file of the RT3
    distribution. I was never able to find this
    address on the web site.

It’s been added to the buglist page.

  1. There is a link on the web site for reporting
    bugs, but it just takes me to
    http://rt3.fsck.com//NoAuth/Buglist.html
    which is a fine list of reported bugs, but
    no search capability there, and no link for reporting
    a new bug.

That page is a semi-static report of currently open known issues. It’s
been modified to tell you how to report a new issue and to automatically
log you in as guest when you click through.

  1. In some note, someone mentinoned a contribution area.
    I searched around a bit, but it took me quite a while
    to find a reference to http://www.fsck.com/pub/rt/contrib/,
    buried in comments in lib/RT/EmailParser.pm

nod that should get fixed.

  1. I also found a README.docs in the distribution,
    which mentioned rt-docs@fsck.com as a place to send
    questions about the docs. But nowhere else, so I’m sorry
    if I should have sent this there or to this list. Oh, well.

That’s a historical address and should get stricken.

I don’t mean this as a big bitch. I like RT, it’s much nicer than
anything I would have written, and I particularly appreciate it
being available as open source. I’m just suggesting that a single
web page with links to all these things, a kind of “Guide to
joining the RT community”, would make things easier for
newcomers like me. When you already know where everything is,
this organization doesn’t seem as important.

nod Point well taken. The documentation effort is somewhat behind
where we’d like it to be, though we should have exciting news on that
front soon.

bobg


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