Hi, Bernhard Voelker wrote, On 02/25/2013 10:58 AM: > On 02/25/2013 03:53 PM, Ondrej Oprala wrote: >> to reduce the amount of questions about date, sort and anything >> multibyte-related, I think >> it'd be a good idea to add a link to the coreutils FAQ to the man pages >> (and/or --help output), maybe something like >> "Report TOOL bugs to bug-coreut...@gnu.org but please make sure the >> behaviour is not listed in FAQ: link" >> What do you think? > > I'd not be surprised if this had already been discussed before. > However, I like the idea, but it would be best if we had nice > translations for that FAQ page. >
If changing the general "help" message (I assume from "emit_ancillary_info()"), perhaps consider another change: Add a line (preferably on top) that would point to "coreutils@gnu.org" in addition to "bugs-coreut...@gnu.org", saying something like: "For common usage questions, see <FAQ>" and then "Send usage questions to coreutils@gnu.org" and only then print the existing: "Report sort bugs to bug-coreut...@gnu.org" This will (hopefully?) prevent those cases where people send general questions and open a new bug, forcing someone to respond with the boiler-plate answer "by sending an email to this mailing list, you've opened a bug-report, and I'm closing it". There's already a link saying: "General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>" But this page is not very helpful for a non-expert who just wants to get help about a specific GNU coreutils program... Just my two cents, -gordon
