501405 - Need info about nightly builds on "Reporting Bugs" page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[jenzed]

User feedback: 

I was trying to follow the "Reporting Bugs"
> [1] page. There you list 4 steps to report  a bug.
> Three of the four are very comprehensive but if you are not
> a geek then the very first step is completely
> unilluminating. I'm quoting:
>
>    "Make sure you are using the latest
> nightly build of Thunderbird."
>
> So here is my proposal about this web page: make the above
> sentence a link to the page where you explain how to install
> a nightly build. That way non-geeks will know what to do and
> won't give up from step 1.
>
> (hmm, I googled around for a couple of minutes and didn't
> find any page with that content -- If there really is no
> such page I could write a few paragraphs for linux and
> windows and you can decide if you want to include it)
>
> _____________
> [1] http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/bugs

Comment 1

[jenzed]

David, can you make the following change please? 

From:

- "Make sure you are using the <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/">latest nightly build</a> of Thunderbird. Always install it in an empty folder."

...to...

- "Make sure you are using the latest nightly build of Thunderbird, available from the <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/">nightly builds ftp page</a>. There are links at the bottom of the page for each build version. "latest-comm-1.9.1/" is  Thunderbird 3.0; "latest-comm-central-trunk/" is Thunderbird 3.1. See the <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Binaries">Thunderbird Binaries</link> page on the Mozilla Developer Center for more information about the various Thunderbird builds. Each directory contains installation files for all supported operating systems. (The target operating system is indicated in the file name.) Always install new builds in an empty folder."

Comment 2

[David Boswell]

I just checked in the change and it should show up on the site in a few minutes.

Comment 3

[jenzed]

thanks - I made a mistake with the closing tag. Can you change </link> to </a> (thinking XML not HTML)

Comment 4

[David Boswell]

Fixed.