"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Rocco Moretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> There is just one giant roadblock to that suggestion - Sourceforge >> requires a login to post bugs/patches. > > After reading this and the rest of your post, and remembering others like > it, I decided this maybe is a real point. Remembering that the site > invited emailed doc comments, I rechecked the About this Document page > referenced at the bottom of each doc page and found the following: > > "General comments and questions regarding this document should be sent by > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you find specific errors in this document, > either in the content or the presentation, please report the bug at the > Python Bug Tracker at SourceForge." > > So I emailed a general suggestion (with specific wording ;-) that error > reports also be allowed via email -- and quoted your post to explain why.
How about extending that, and bundle a tool with python that helps a user send a properly-formatted bug report, with prompts for all the relevant information? This combines the nice feature of the web form - that you get some control over the format of the report - with ease of use. FreeBSD, for instance, comes with the "send-pr" command, which fires up $VISUAL on a bug report template that it's already partially filled out from the environment. See <URL: http://tinyurl.com/7anxz > for the man page. That's probably not appropriate for Python. But the idea still seems like something worthwhile to add. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
