title: The Help Menu
---
-<p class="fixme">Describe the items</p>
+<p>
+ The <dfn>Help</dfn> Menu gives acces to usefull information about Ardour.
+</p>
-Help
- [] About
- Chat
- Manual
- Reference
- User Forums
- How to Report a Bug
- Report a Bug
- Ardour Website
- Ardour Development
+<dl>
+ <dt>[] About</dt><dd>Shows the <kbd class="menu">About Ardour</kbd> window, which contains information about the version, config, authors,and license of Ardour</dd>
+ <dt>Chat</dt><dd>This is a shortcut to the webchat version of the Freenode IRC channel of Ardour, where the developpers meet, and questions can be asked if the Manual is not enough</dd>
+ <dt>Manual</dt><dd>Link to a FLOSSManual guide to Ardour</dd>
+ <dt>Reference</dt><dd>Link to this manual, hosted on ardour.org</dd>
+ <dt>User Forums</dt><dd>Link to ardour.org's user forum</dd>
+ <dt>How to Report a Bug</dt><dd>Link to an helping page about reporting bugs</dd>
+ <dt>Report a Bug</dt><dd>Link to Ardour's Mantis bugtracker</dd>
+ <dt>Ardour Website</dt><dd>Link to Ardour's main and official website</dd>
+ <dt>Ardour Development</dt><dd>Link to the developpers' part of the official website</dd>
+</dl>