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

[Holger]

At 12:06 11.08.2003 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:26:03PM +0200, Holger wrote
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.

> 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.

Regards,

        Holger