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FS#30518 - {archweb} Add a support landing page

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Karol Babioch (johnpatcher) - Tuesday, 03 July 2012, 10:19 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 01 September 2014, 20:44 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
As proposed here (https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-July/027803.html) it would be nice to have a support landing page. Right now we have all the great means of helping other people out, but have no overview of what this means are on a single and clear page.

My suggestion would be something like "https://www.archlinux.org/support/". On this page all the different ways to get help from the Arch community would be summarized. This would include the forums, the mailing lists, the wiki, the IRC channels and maybe a link to the bug tracker with all known issues or something like that.

For the purpose of inspiration you could take a look at
* https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-help
* http://www.debian.org/support
* http://www.ubuntu.com/support
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Monday, 01 September 2014, 20:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  No response, and likely belongs on the wiki so the community can more easily edit it.
Comment by Kevin (anonymous_user) - Tuesday, 03 July 2012, 13:38 GMT
BTW on the main page, there is small section labeled "Support". However it is not related to help but rather financial support. Maybe that should be made clearer?
Comment by Karol Babioch (johnpatcher) - Tuesday, 03 July 2012, 14:14 GMT
Maybe this should be called "Support Arch Linux" whereas the landing page would be called something like "Community support". Or someone comes up with a good synonym for "support".
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 03 July 2012, 15:12 GMT
A much better source for inspiration for me would be a patch against archweb adding this page. I'm +1 on the idea, including renaming the existing link to the donate page.
Comment by Leonidas Spyropoulos (inglor) - Monday, 01 October 2012, 12:26 GMT
Hello I am working on a patch for that. I am thinkning something like a semi-static page with the following:

Support
[toc]
News (dynamic)
(display first 2 news as they are always helpful and solve a lot of issues)
Wiki
(link to wiki)
Forums
(link to forums and forum rules)
Mailing lists
(link to mailman and lists)
IRC
(link to IRC channels)
Bugs
(link to bugtracker)

Let me know what you think.
PS: I think the donate renaming is already fixed in HEAD master
Comment by Leonidas Spyropoulos (inglor) - Monday, 01 October 2012, 19:58 GMT
I could not send the patch to the mailing list as it was rejected because of the filters (doesn't seem to accept [archweb]).
Please find attached the patch for the new support page

I don't know if we should put a Support link on the top right links, comments?
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 03:45 GMT
I took a look at this tonight. Not quite ready for inclusion, here are a few thoughts:

Why did you use different layout and styling from every other page? The outermost box enclosing everything should look more like the download page; we also don't use <h1/> elements anywhere else. This should be an <h2/> and nested within the class="box" element.

Why are we repeating the news items here, but showing even less than the homepage? I'd much prefer a "10 most recent news items in full" link or something to a page that doesn't currently exist, but would be more like the RSS feed.

Clicking "Wiki" in the TOC was unexpected- I thought I would go straight there, not have to jump around the page. Also unexpected was the headers themselves being links to the resource described, since I already got deceived by a link.

s/bts/bugs/

If BUG needs to be emphasized (which I don't think it does), please use markup instead of all caps.

Most CSS ids tend to be hyphen-delimited, not underscore_delimited in the current code.

Your div ids and h2 ids are sharing the same indentifiers; that is invalid.

We are "Arch Linux", not "Archlinux".

I've attached an updated patch that fixes a lot of the above, but we could still use some editing and work to ensure we aren't just duplicating content available elsewhere.

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