Bug reporting method too hard to find

I could not find out how to report a bug. In the end, a colleague had to tell me.

Some suggested improvements:

1) Explicitly mention the word "bug" on the home page, or have
a page which Google will find called "Reporting bugs".

2) I did eventually get to the Community page:
http://git-scm.com/community

Alas, when I scanned the headline "Mailing List" I ignored that whole section because I didn't want to join a mailing list - I just wanted to report a bug.

I'd call it maybe "Mailing List and Bug Reporting". Or have a separate bugs section below called "Bug Reporting" which refers to the mailing list.

3) I definitely wasn't going to subscribe to a mailing list to report
a bug (no idea why - I'm just reporting my instinct which lots of
people likely have). 

I am only doing so because I saw that I don't have to subscribe.

I'm not sure how to make it clearer, but it needs to be as it is highly unintuitive. These days, you have to join most email lists to post to them.

This all matters, because Git is likely losing lots of basic bugs, particularly ones to do with usability for beginner users.

Thanks for a great tool!

Francis

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:58:57AM +0000, Francis Irving wrote:

Thanks for your suggestions; they all seem like improvements. I just opened:

  https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/462

which implements most of them. Unlike development of git itself, which happens on the mailing list, development of the website is centered around that GitHub repository; if you have further suggestions for the site, they'll probably get more attention by opening an issue there.

-Peff