[#22127] - [RFC] Help Server options in the backend: Removal of help.joomla.fr
- Closed
- 12 Sep 2018
- Medium
- Build: staging
- # 22127
When using the backend in French, a user has the option to display the help screens from an unofficial property, help.joomla.fr, instead of help.joomla.org.
It used to make totally sense as, at that time, the official documentation was available in English only.
Since then, a multilingual system has been implemented on docs.joomla.org.
Furthermore, it seems that help.joomla.fr is not updated anymore, displaying help screens for versions between 3.1.1 and 3.2.0, and so many help screens don’t even exist.
Without mentioning that docs.joomla.org is an open property where anyone can contribute, which is not the case of help.joomla.fr
Of course, all JDocs help screens are not yet translated into French, and there’s still lot of work to do, but having JDocs as the only source for help screens could allow the community to translate one and only source.
A last thing, as JDocs help screens are automatically displayed in the language set up for your backend, this option becomes even more obsolete.
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franz-wohlkoenig
- | Status | New | ⇒ | Discussion |
| Category | ⇒ | Documentation UI/UX |
it's temporary or it has been decided already to switch on docs.joomla.org ?
The public facing help.joomla.org domain has been that way for quite some time (because the public facing version of the site was in essence 1.0 and early 1.5 documentation, the site was abandoned).
The help screen proxy (served via help.joomla.org/proxy is not going anywhere anytime soon (and is really just a wrapper around docs.joomla.org to read items out of the Mediawiki API and do some formatting to display those in the iframed context the screens are rendered in).
(Long and short help.joomla.org these days is an internal domain, not something we're directing the public to (directly), if someone wants to create content for that subdomain though to replace the notice https://github.com/joomla/help.joomla.org is where to send pull requests)
| Status | Discussion | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2018-09-12 04:49:29 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | franz-wohlkoenig |
| Closed_By | franz-wohlkoenig | ⇒ | joomla-cms-bot |
Set to "closed" on behalf of @franz-wohlkoenig by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/22127
See my comment here
#22133 (comment)
If it is not up to date then it should be removed.
If french is the only language that ever provided a help server then the entire option should be removed