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Propose change to new user link for documentation issues on the bug tracker #321
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Both of those suggestions make sense to me as well - the paperclip and octocat icons are handy, but thoroughly cryptic if nobody has told you what they mean :) |
Thanks, I'll prepare a PR. FYI, I didn't realize it was octocat until you just mentioned it. It looked like headphones to me, which was completely confusing. |
Thanks @csabella! |
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On the devguide landing page, there's a section called 'Contributing', under which there is a section and links:
Clicking on 'Helping with Documentation' leads to the page of the same name and section 6.1 starts with:
Within that text 'documentation issues' is also a link, leading to this page:
current
When I first looked at the devguide last year to try to begin contributing, I found the results returned from that link very confusing. They are in priority sections with the oldest ones first. I didn't know if I was looking at the right thing because I wasn't familiar with the bug tracker and I didn't understand that there are some issues that can be 7+ years old. Anyway, I propose the following link to make it easier for new users to find documentation bugs to work on:
suggested
Also, I think it might be helpful in that section to add a sentence to explain that some issues already have a pull request or patch that indicates that someone else is already working on the issue.
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