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

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 03:17:56PM +0200, Holger wrote
> At 12:06 11.08.2003 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> >
> >Apart from the prefil it should be possible to do this using IFRAME or
> >FRAME. The advantage is that we can inline the actual form from
> >savannah, and the disadvantage is that we use frames. While I hate
> 
> The other disadvantage is that the user needs to be on-line for the entire 
> procedure.
> 
> >frames I hate duplicate maintenance even more...
> 
> I would hope that it's not much. It might still not be worth the effort.


The user eventually has to go online to submit the bug. Of
course, "fill bug report, go online, submit" is better than "go online,
fetch bug report, optionally go offline, fill bug report, go online,
submit".

By Murphy's law we will always forget to change the page when we add
some new item to the dropdowns on savannah or if the savannah hackers
add some new stuff.

It may be possible to write a script that generates the page at
compile-time by issuing a wget command to fetch the page, and do so
post-processing (extract the html from <!-- start content --> to <!--
end content -->).

I still prefer the remote page to avoid setting up the automation.

The prefil of the form is also somewhat difficult and very much
platform dependent. 

> >Another alternative is to have a webpage a www.gnubg.org that can be
> >called from Help->Report bug:
> >
> >Report bugs
> >===========
> >
> >Introduction:
> >-------------
> ...
> >Report the bug:
> >---------------
> >
> ><a href="mailto:address@hidden>GNU Backgammon Mailing list</a>
> ><a href="http://savannah/blah/blah";>Bug tracker</a>
> 
> This page could also be local.

Yes.

Jørn

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