README: Rephrase forum into more generic help #20413
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| You can ask for help on the Forum or on Matrix. Please send bug reports and | ||
| feature requests to our [github issue tracker](https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/issues) | ||
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| - [forum](https://forum.riot-os.org) is the default place to start asking for |
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Forum ... is the default place to ask for help. The Forum provides an archive of prior questions and answers.
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Forum ... is the default place to ask for help. The Forum provides an archive of prior questions and answers.
I don't follow your comment here, could you clarify a bit? Is this a suggestion to rephrase the sentence into the content of your comment?
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yes, this comment was about rephrasing.
- Forum is the default place to ask for help. Our Forum provides an archive of prior questions and answers.
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| - [forum](https://forum.riot-os.org) is the default place to start asking for | ||
| help. The search can be used to find older questions and answers. | ||
| - We use [#riot-os:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#riot-os:matrix.org) on the |
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For rather synchronous chats, we use the ...
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IMO the term "synchronous" here is odd. For one, it is technically not correct. Second, the term is too technical here IMO with regard to the diverse target audience that may just wants to start tinkering and has no strong computer science background.
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thanks for this constructive comment.
easy to solve: For chats, we use [...]
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| Please include as much detail as you can that is relevant to your question, not | ||
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| 1. What you want to achieve |
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I wonder if the part you now call should be called 'Communications', with a sub part into 'asking for help'. Since you sum up the communication channels used (forum, matrix chat, GitHub). See this README-template for an overview of communications. The used social media can also be summed up here (mastadon, youtube, ..?) The sub part of communications will then be 'asking for help', stating that the forum is the main channel with the chat for small questions + how to ask. |
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Can this PR also be labeled 'Community: good first issue'? |
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| Do you have a question, want to discuss a new feature, or just want to present | ||
| your latest project using RIOT? Come over to our [forum] and post to your hearts | ||
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| ## Asking for help |
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| ## Asking for help | |
| ## Community | |
| ### how to get in contact | |
| forum, matrix, webpage | |
| ### Asking for help | |
| You might already find your question answered in our forum or in an Gitub issue. You can search both of them. |
Contribution description
This PR replaces the section called 'Forum' with a more generic section on 'asking for help'. I couldn't find something similar at first glance in our documentation so it is likely helpful for newcomers to explicitly add this.
Testing procedure
Read the update to the readme and check whether all the links added work.
Issues/PRs references
None