15998 - Help menu should not contain ``Help at Netscape.com''

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect, P3)

Description

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

This is Mozilla, recall.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

Assigning to appropriate parties/component.

Comment 2

[Eli Goldberg]

So, the request is specifically that in the *Mozilla* builds, we should not be
including a menu item to point users to the help resources on netscape.com. Vera?

(This menu item, of course, should remain in the commercial builds.)

Comment 3

[verah (gone)]

I'm not sure who makes such decisions for Mozilla, but the appropriate parties,
whoever they may be, need to decide what if anything should be in the Mozilla
Help menu. This may or may not include end-user help. If it does, I can offer
sanitized versions of my Help files, which I can update periodically as my time
allows, and/or hand off to a volunteer (the latter is, of course, preferred!).
If the Mozilla powers-that-be don't want a pointer to Netcenter, then they
should remove it and also check other items in the Help menu; most of them point
to various pages located at Netcenter.

Comment 4

[Mitchell Baker]

Am cc'ing Dawn as she was to look into this for mozilla.org

Comment 5

[matt]

So what should i do with the help menu?
Should i rip it all out or not?

Comment 6

[verah (gone)]

Here's a suggestion:  Take everything out except for "Release Notes" (which
should point to the latest version), and the "About."
The URL for the M10 release notes (the latest) is:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m10.html

Comment 7

[Eli Goldberg]

...and ONLY on the public Mozilla builds, please! (e.g. Commercial builds should
remain unchanged)

Comment 8

[matt]

this is fixed.
Using bug 14234 as bug so that
i add help menu into commercial builds

Comment 9

[Eli Goldberg]

Confirmed that the Help menu exclusively contains "Release Notes" and "About"
(excluding platform-specific menus on Mac OS.)