On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:59:11PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > If web-only people could not submit bug reports against debian packages > it's our fault, not their. Eh? They can send an e-mail to submit@bugs.debian.org using hotmail. I don't think it's our fault if some users are mental vegetables. (Yes, yes, be nice to the vegetables, the e-mail interface isn't as "friendly" as a web GUI, and all the rest of it. Write it if you want, but the moment I have to fire up a web browser to manipulate bug reports is the day I give up and go dairy farming). > This is a problem about _how_ the web interface is realized, not about > the idea of a web interface itself. For some reason, though, webapps seem to accumulate cruft like a kleptomaniac accumulates useless trinkets. I don't know whether it's because of the people writing them or the medium, but I've found way too many webapps with a million poorly-written never-used "features". Probably also a limitation of the medium -- it's easier to hide rarely used options in menus and whatnot in a regular GUI app. > But the web interface is not in contrast with the email interface. > Moreover from my POV the web inteface could even be set up only for > _submitting_ bug reports, not necessarily for manipulating them as well. Not for long. The moment you give them a web interface, they'll be crawling all over the thing wanting every feature and it's dog built in there. - Matt
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