On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 17:12, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:56:03PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> With a free form field called "System specific information, please paste >> here the output of “reportbug --template <package>”". >> >> That could even be reasonable. > > Except many people won't bother doing that.
exactly > Currently, the barrier to submitting bugs manually (that is, through > mail but without the use of reportbug) makes it less common for people > to file useless bug reports. > > I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a webinterface, but > perhaps make it easier to find that webinterface if people use > reportbug. That is, have a desktop icon "file a bug" that causes > reportbug to gather the necessary information from the local system, > submit an HTTP request with template information over SOAP or some such, > receive an HTTP URL from the server, and then fire off sensible-browser > with said URL to allow the user to fill in whatever needs to be filled > in. I find this method very nice to give the users an immediate feedback their bugs was successfully reported. OTOH, the proposal above would use something similar to --template output to feed a webform where only teh body and the subject of the repot is missing (or those the only 2 things a john doe user would add), in that case, I don't see the advantage over a simple reportbug. you don't like cli? ok, give it a try to GTK+ UI -> make that "file a bug" icon open the GTK+ UI for reportbug. We develop it with being user friendlier than the cli version, so use it, let us know if you like it and if there something to fix/adjust, report a bug :) Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimrst5xj2v085v6xe59mo9qpythfq4b=cvig...@mail.gmail.com
