Bug 149446

Summary: [patch] improve misleading title of "report a bug"
Product: Documentation Reporter: Warren Block <wblock>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: bcr, jgh, wblock
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Warren Block 2010-08-08 21:10:05 UTC 
The "Report A Bug" link on http://www.freebsd.org is misleading.  It's not just for reporting bugs, but actually goes to the bug database.

Fix: Apply attached patch.

Patch attached with submission follows:
How-To-Repeat: See http://www.freebsd.org
Comment 1 Johann Kois freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-08-09 09:56:11 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-www->jkois

Take.
Comment 2 Johann Kois freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-10-11 21:39:21 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: jkois->freebsd-www

Back to the pool.  I think a round of discussion is needed if we should do something about this.
Comment 3 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-07-26 08:30:37 UTC 
Warren, do you think we still need to work on this? We have since moved to Bugzilla and changed the description of the links to be more clear.
Comment 4 Warren Block freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-07-26 12:04:28 UTC 
This is the link on the main freebsd.org page under "SHORTCUTS".

Yes, it is still misleading.  A shortcut called "Report a bug" implies that FreeBSD is so buggy that one of the main things visitors to the site need is an easy way to report those bugs.  The intent is, I believe, more to let visitors search for bugs.

The page the link goes to is titled "Bug Reports".  Either that, or the "Bug Database" in the patch is more accurate and less misleading.
Comment 5 Jason Helfman freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-03-04 01:51:05 UTC 
Thanks for the report!
Comment 6 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-03-04 01:51:06 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: jgh
Date: Fri Mar  4 01:50:35 UTC 2016
New revision: 48320
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48320

Log:
  - reword "Report a Bug" to something less misleading

  PR:		149446 (based on)
  Submitted by:	wblock@
  Approved by:	wblock@

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/index.xsl