[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: reporting bugs is way to easy
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2000-08-30 14:57:20
[Download RAW message or body]

Andreas Pour wrote:

[ ... ]

> Right, or at least putting the bug back in the user's court.  Rather
> than report the bug by e-mail, have it reported via a web interface
> (this simplifies the need to have sendmail installed and setup properly)
> -- i.e., rather than using sendmail DrKonqi uses khtml to do a POST with
> the bug report to the bugs database.  The database can determine if
> there is an overload and if so pull out a list of bugs that match on a
> keyword basis and ask the user if the reported bug matches any of them.
> For the users for whom it is too much work they will give up then; in
> any event it will narrow down the reports.

Follow up:  maybe one can get the new Linux testing group involved
(http://salon.com/tech/wire/2000/08/29/linux/index.html) when they go
online.

Ciao,

Andreas

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]