faq should explain how imports work

perhaps linking to something in the reviewers guide would be good? We certainly should have a HOWTO to get things imported/tell if something is imported etc.

Reckon this could be done for 1.1.8? Doesn't sound like much work.

Adding an item in the FAQ, linking to https://help.launchpad.net/VcsImports, seems a reasonable goal for 1.1.8.

Duh! I someone got the notion the FAQ was a wiki page, and that I could postpone updating it to week 4.

I was wrong, it's a proper Launchpad page, so it needs to be updated within the release cycle.

Retargeting to 1.1.9, too late to do it for 1.1.8.

code.launchpad.net has a big green "Import your project" button that links to the VcsImports wiki page. I think people wanting to know how imports work are far more likely to look there than in a FAQ in the page footer.

On 8/22/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden> wrote:
> code.launchpad.net has a big green "Import your project" button that
> links to the VcsImports wiki page. I think people wanting to know how
> imports work are far more likely to look there than in a FAQ in the page
> footer.

Maybe. Personally when I come to a new web site and am trying to work
out what it is, I commonly click the 'faq' or 'help' button before
clicking a button that promises to start a new action. I realize some
people do just go ahead and try things.

But I think it's safe to assume that imports are a common question.

--
Martin

Uploading a fix that just hyperlinks "Daily imports" to https://help.launchpad.net/VcsImports.

RF 4814

Was this actually fixed the right way? I see a comment from David on-list:

  It is still unclear to me whether the page that was actually fixed:
  https://code.edge.launchpad.net/+faq
  can be navigated to by users, and whether the fix should not have been instead on
  https://code.edge.launchpad.net/faq

I'd say it's a serious bug that there are two faqs purporting to describe the same topic. They should be merged.

... and that's bug 144332

Since the duplicated FAQ issue is reported in another bug, I close this one.

Released in Launchpad 1.1.9.