Re: Bug Tracking

[Rik]

> From:
> Rob Mahurin <address@hidden>
> Date:
> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:49:39 -0400
> To:
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> 
> To:
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> CC:
> Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:36:19PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> Do you have a suggestion for how we can update it to do something
>> useful?  Should it simply print out information about how to report
>> bugs, possibly with information that would be useful to include in the
>> tracker's submission form?
> 
> Having bug_report actually report bugs is a nice feature.  
> 
> urlwrite can send POST requests, so in principle, bug_report could
> collect the desired fields, submit the form, and give the user a URL
> to examine their bug in the tracker.
> 
> This would introduce a maintenance burden to keep bug_report
> synchronized with the tracker's submission form.  For instance, right
> now the submission page is asking a captcha (paptcha?) question about
> George Orwell, and that question will probably be different in two
> years when slow upgraders are still using the soon-to-be-released Octave.
> 
> I have just done this successfully:
>       https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29354
> 
> There's some other auto-generated form fields, which can perhaps be
> identified by some fancy text-scraping.
>  
> Comments?
Rob,

I like this.  To be most useful I think it should also include the
information about the user's environment that bug_report currently
collects.  Can your urlwrite script also attach this information as a file?

--Rik