Re: [Bug-gnubg] Weekly reminder (final version?!)

[Holger]

At 12:24 10.08.2003 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:38:09AM +0200, Holger wrote
> > On 09 Aug 2003 13:25:27 +0200, Achim Mueller wrote:
> >
> > > I have taken all your suggestions (and shortened it a little, sorry
> > > Jim). Is this one ok for a weekly posting? For my taste it's nearly to
> > > long (people may tend to not reading it).
> >
> > Actually, I'm not sure whether a weekly posting will help at all. Only
> > the regular readers might get annoyed (if they don't figure out how to
> > delete them already on the server). Else, monthly should be enough.
> >
> > I'd suggest putting this text near every place where someone new could
> > possibly find the mailing list address. That should be mainly on the
> > gnubg homepage and the list archive.
>
> We can also include it in the manual and perhaps change the "report bug"
> menu item, so it brings up a dialog with the guidelines as well as a
> button that takes you to savannah.

This night I had an idea: What about making the "Report bug" menu entry do 
the following:

Generate a HTML file with the guidelines and a bug submitting form that has 
the same CGI action like the one at Savannah and open it in a browser.
With this gnubg could even fill in the form to quite some extent, such as 
version, OS and so on. This also has the advantage that the user only needs 
to be online for submitting, not already for filling in the information.
A drawback may be that we would have to keep it in sync with the actual 
Savannah form, but I think this shouldn't change often.

Regards,

        Holger