Re: So how on earth do I register?

[email protected] (Matteo Sisti Sette) Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:00:55 +0200
Newsgroups php.pear.webmaster
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oh, I see, there's a very small link "add a note" _before_ the huge 
title that reads "User notes". I hadn't noticed it and I had looked 
pretty hard. The normal place to put it would be _below_ the "User 
notes" title!


On 10/20/2012 05:47 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was reading a particular manual page, and I wanted to contribute a
> user note.
>
> At the end of the page I read: "There are no user-contributed notes to
> this page". That MUST mean that there is a possibility for users to
> contribute notes, otherwise that part should be removed.
>
> So, since there was no link or button or form to post a user note, I
> deduced I must be logged in to write one, and since I don't have an
> account, I clicked on "Register".
>
> This lead me to this page:
> http://pear.php.net/account-request.php
>
> Here there is a list of the reasons for which one needs to register, but
> it does not include posting user notes to the documentation. And it does
> not provide a way to register, without performing one of the actions in
> the list (e.g. report a bug).
>
> So, how am I supposed to register in order to post a user note on the
> documentation?
>
> If there's no way to post a user note because user notes don't exist at
> all, then PLEASE remove the footer that reads "User Notes: there are no
> contributed user notes for this page", so at least users won't waste
> their time.
>
> Regards,
> Matteo Sisti Sette