Re: QA howtohelp.php doc page

Marcus Boerger wrote:

Hello Ligaya, patch applied, well manually applied. For the future please provide patches using "cvs -upd" and provide them as attached ascii file best as ".diff.txt". best regards marcus Friday, July 14, 2006, 12:45:20 AM, you wrote:

Might I suggest an alternate to what is currently up..

Index: howtohelp.php =================================================================== RCS file: /repository/qaweb/howtohelp.php,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 howtohelp.php

--- howtohelp.php       19 Jan 2003 18:02:12 -0000      1.16
+++ howtohelp.php       13 Jul 2006 22:43:39 -0000

@@ -17,7 +17,18 @@

         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td width="10">&nbsp;</td>
-          <td width="100%">You can help the QA effort in several ways:<br />
+          <td width="100%">So there you sit.  A PHP coder who loves PHP.  But lately
+                 you find yourself wanting to help the PHP community by contributing.  Only
+                 one problem - you aren't a uber 1337 coder - whether it is because

you have

+                 only recently started to learn how to program in PHP or you just

don't yet

+                 have the experience with advanced concepts.  But you really want to

help out

+                 and you are unsure though how to go about doing it.  You have

looked at the

+                 various 'normal' ways of helping out with PHP but nothing seems to

fit. Your

+                 C coding isn't the best (if you even know how) so helping with the

core or

+                 PECL is out, nothing in PEAR really 'calls' to you, and you don't

know anything

+                 about the PHP docs and the software it uses.  So where does that

leave you.

+                 Have no fear there is still a way you can help with PHP - you can

help the

+                 PHP Quality Assurance team.<br />
             <br />
           </td>
           <td width="10">&nbsp;</td>

@@ -26,10 +37,10 @@

           <td width="10">&nbsp;</td>
           <td width="100%">
             <ul>
-              <li class="lihack"><a href="write-test.php">Write testcases</a>:
+              <li class="lihack">You can <a href="write-test.php">Write testcases</a>:
               <ul>
                 <li class="lihack">to reproduce bugs</li>
-                <li class="lihack">for PHP functions for which no testcase exist</li>
+                <li class="lihack">for PHP functions where testcases do not currently exist</li>
               </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="lihack">

Best regards, Marcus My apologies. Will do next time.

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