From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: “guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 13:00:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ1j7fV+5J77ftxN7wzrPjodRveGkFK9z9pGU8YtmmAKDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blmpijrs.fsf@elephly.net>
Hi Ricardo,
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:20, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> annoyed by the fact that people turn to Reddit for help with Guix — a
> venue only very few of us frequent — I wondered if our help channels are
> visible enough.
Maybe it is "cultural" or/and "generational" thing and we cannot do
really better. Maybe some people prefer channels as Reddit because
they are a bit "afraid" by email and/or IRC, especially maybe on
official channels. Maybe because when someone has a problem, the
first thing they does is a query to popular search engines and then
browse some Reddit-kind of channels, so maybe they feels like it is a
good entry point. Maybe some people appreciate the voting system
(upvote, Discourse, etc.) to be "rewarded". Etc..
Well, I am not convinced it is an issue about visibility. :-(
> “guix --help” prints this:
>
> Report bugs to: bug-guix@gnu.org.
> GNU Guix home page: <https://guix.gnu.org>
> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
>
> I think it should explicitly point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/, maybe
> right before “General help using GNU software”.
Yes, it cost nothing and could improve.
All the best,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 10:18 “guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/ Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-15 11:00 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-05-15 15:54 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2020-05-17 23:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-18 9:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-15 20:22 ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-17 23:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-20 15:36 ` zimoun
2020-05-24 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-25 6:40 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-25 9:17 ` zimoun
2020-05-25 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
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