Helpful sidebar

docs/Guardfile

@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ from livereload.compiler import shell
 Task.add('*.rst', shell('make html'))
 Task.add('*/*.rst', shell('make html'))
 Task.add('_static/*.css', shell('make clean html'))
+Task.add('_templates/*', shell('make clean html'))
 Task.add('Makefile', shell('make html'))
 Task.add('conf.py', shell('make html'))

docs/_templates/sidebarhelp.html

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<h3>Need help?</h3>
+
+<p>
+  You can seek realtime assistance via IRC at
+  <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net#pil">irc://irc.freenode.net#pil</a>. You can
+  also post to the
+  <a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig">
+    Image-SIG mailing list</a>. And, of course, there's
+  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pillow">
+    Stack Overflow</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  If you've discovered a bug, you can
+  <a href="https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues/new">open an issue
+    on Github</a>.
+</p>
+

docs/conf.py

@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ html_static_path = ['_static']
 html_theme_options = {}
 
 html_sidebars = {
-    '**': ['localtoc.html', 'sourcelink.html', 'searchbox.html'],
+    '**': ['localtoc.html', 'sourcelink.html', 'sidebarhelp.html',
-    'index': ['searchbox.html'],
+           'searchbox.html'],
+    'index': ['sidebarhelp.html', 'searchbox.html'],
 }
 
 # Output file base name for HTML help builder.

docs/index.rst

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ aware that it was last updated for PIL 1.1.5.
    handbook/guides.rst
    handbook/appendices.rst
    PIL
-   plugins
 
 Indices and tables
 ==================