Re: WebSite: navigation to bug reporting

[Daniel Boyd]

My vote is the "prominent place" option even though I admit it does detract somewhat from a clean aesthetic. But I think it's worth it.

By having it in a prominent location, the most direct effect is that it will be easier to find. I don't think that matters as much for developers, most of whom will explore the site thoroughly, so I'm thinking more of the impact on end users. End users may or may not be accustomed to reporting bugs and I think there is some value in giving them a subtle message that the project encourages bug reports. I think by having a link to the bug report page in their field of vision every time they are on a gnustep.org page, you may end up with a higher percentage of users submitting bug reports.

On Feb 16, 2024, at 11:22 AM, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:

I like the way you put it in the menu. The name „External“ is really a bit confusing, but at the moment I don’t have a better idea.

Cheers,

Fred

Am 16.02.2024 um 15:38 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>:

Hi,

I want to uniform the bug reporting on our website.

Originally, we had a single page on savannah for all projects. I found this better than the current situation of github, were every sub-project has its own issue tracker. This makes reclassifying a bug impossible and also confuse newcomers.

But is what it is, I created a single page which should help as a collector and points to te trackers of the most common projects.

See it here: https://home.gnustep.org/bugs.html

We also had a wiki page: https://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Report_Bugs

But the wiki was not available for a long time and also, now it needs to be promoted.

It would be best if bugs.gnuste.org could point to https://home.gnustep.org/bugs.html eventually.

But question: where to put the navigation?

Under a "menu" like you can see here: https://home.gnustep.org/index.html

(name of menu and structure are another topic, current name is "External")

Or on a separate item, maybe even in a prominent place like at right, as here: https://home.gnustep.org/jigs/index.html

Both have pro&con, say yours.

Riccardo