Hi. Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 11:05 +0200, Joachim Breitner a écrit : > > most of the time, people are going to look at and to link at URLs like > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123456 > e.g. the plain bug view without any options. This is also what > http://bugs.debian.org/123456 > redirects to. > > I think it would be much nicer if > a) The redirect is done internal, e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/123456 > will stay in the URL line, making it more likely that people will use > that when they want to link to a certain bug. > and maybe even > b) The BTS also generates the short version version everywhere where it > links to a bug without further option. > > Not a great deal, but makes the BTS a more aesthetic and slicker place > to be :-) >
+1 It also helps matching discussions in other bugtrackers (forums, lists, etc.) where a Debian bug is referred to. Taking it a step further, it also makes the BTS more compliant with the Linked Data approach (aka Semantic Web), where there URIs of bugs could become unique identifiers for these bugs, should they be referred to from elsewhere (/Linked/ data). For instance (turtle syntax for RDF predicates) <http://bugs.debian.org/123456> debbugs:forwaded <http://mybugsilla.example.com/987654> would then be much more manageable by SemWeb aware applications, if that short url was standard/default. Same stands for bugzilla, in this case, btw, which suffers same problems. Let me add that content-negociation on the "Accept:" header with respect to the expected format for output of these URLs (either HTML for humans as of now, or RDF for machines) would be a plus, also. See http://bugs.debian.org/565513 which deals with other aspects of that RDF/Linked Data problem, as OSLC-CM is a protocol which mandates REST and RDF/Linked Data principles. Hope this helps. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER <olivier.ber...@it-sudparis.eu> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
