On Monday, 21 October 2013 at 08:17:49 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 10/21/13, Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 12:16:14 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
...it's strange how many people don't even know it exists...
No it isn't.
What isn't? I'm just reporting on user experience here.
John Colvin got it, but I'll confirm: It's not at all strange or
unusual that an undocumented tool isn't well-known.
It doesn't matter that it's in the tools repository or tucked
away on some non-obvious page of the wiki. If people don't see
it in the first two places we expect them to look, then it may as
well not exist to a lot of them.
I agree it should be added to the release tarball, but even that
won't necessarily improve its visibility. How often do you look
for new things with strange names added to /usr/bin alongside the
binaries you're actually using?
So I'll go a little further: not only should it be on the
tooling-related pages, it should also be mentioned and linked in
any place where we talk about reporting bugs, including the
homepage of the bug tracker.
-Wyatt
