[documentation] [Documentation task] Improper link destination for users to join the Documentation Team

[VeryMisunderstood]

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/108362
Post a follow up: 
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/108362

-Project:      User experience
+Project:      Documentation
 Version:      <none>
-Component:    usability
+Component:    Misc
 Category:     tasks
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  joelfarris
 Updated by:   VeryMisunderstood
 Status:       active

changing the issue from being filed against User experience to
Documentation project so that it can be looked at.




VeryMisunderstood



Previous comments:
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Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:40:43 +0000 : joelfarris

I just tried to become a documentation contributor. Here's what I
experienced while trying to get my name added to the list of authorized
editors.


I found a link to a page called "Contributing to the handbook [1]"
while reading the forums. I think the link was in Steven Peck's sig. I'm
not sure, but that's irrelevant. When I clicked the link, I was shown a
page that laid out the responsibilities of documentation contributors,
the needs of drupal.org, and several other things.


In the third paragraph of this same page is the link my eyes spotted
right away as I was scanning the page. It's titled "joining the
documentation team [2]". I had hoped that this link might take me to a
button I could click to add my name to the Handbook Moderators
privileges, or maybe a simple form that requested a few small details
from me before allowing me access to edit documentation nodes. Alas, I
was wrong.


I clicked the joining the documentation team [3] link, and I was shown
a two-page list of what appeared to be mailing lists. Mailing lists? I
don't want to sign up for mailing lists. I want to become a
Documentation Editor?


Do you see how I became  stymied at this point? I am still not an
editor, but I have no idea where to go from here.


One last thing I need to point out. Even after arriving on the Mailing
Lists page, I scanned down to the fourth heading, entitled
"Documentation". Indeed! I may be onto something! Nope. There is nothing
I can click on that signs me up to anything. I can't even "join a list".
The only three choices I see are:



* View archive
* Search archive
* Mailman page

Nothing looks like what I, as a user, am looking for.
--
Joel Farris
[1] http://drupal.org/node/23743
[2] http://drupal.org/mailinglists
[3] http://drupal.org/mailinglists




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Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:24:26 +0000 : joelfarris

The link I posted above has now disappeared; sucked into the vastness of
cyberspace. http://drupal.org/mailinglists is no longer. I'm now even
more lost than before.