Bug#376291: debbugs: List commands in alphabetic order in www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
tag 376291 wontfix
thanks
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006, Jari Aalto wrote:
> | On Sat, 01 Jul 2006, Jari Aalto wrote:
> | > When searching for command, the listing of the page could be better.
> | > For lookup, Please organize the BTS server command listing
> | > alphabetically:
> |
> | While I'll definetly entertain suggestions for improving the order and
> | the documentation; alphabetical is not an improvement, because related
> | options are no longer listed together. [If you're searching for a
> | specific option, almost all webservers have searching on a single page
> | available.]
>
> The alphabetical would be much better. The current page does not
> follow any direct logical order, although some grouping can be
> sensed. E.g. there is no single order one would expect commands to
> be ordered. Person A might expect "close" to be next to "quit ..
> stop", Person B might wonder why the page starts with "reassign"
> command and Person C why "found" is near the top when it is seldomly
> used.
Ordering them alphabetically makes even less sense than someone's
guess at a useful order by grouping similar commands together.
Suggestions and/or patches with an improvement in order requested;
changing the order to alphabetical isn't an improvement, so marking
this wontfix.
[Even most manuals try to group related actions toghether; for the
most part that page attempts to.]
Don Armstrong
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