On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:10:01PM +1000, Matthew Palmer 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.
I personally don't manually send mail to submit@b.d.o in order to submit
bug reports since I don't remember the precise format of the mail and
I'm not willing to read the doc each time I submit one. Thus I use
reportbug which is handy and abstract over mail format details. Why
people using webmail should not have a similar tool?
> (Yes, yes, be nice to the vegetables, the e-mail interface isn't as
Precisely.
> "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).
You keep on using this argument, even if I've already stressed out that
adding a web interface is not equal to remove the mail interface.
> > 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.
Yes, I agree, but since you're not interested in using the web
interface, why do you care about this details?
> > 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.
It seems to me that you're against such a web interface even if you're
not going to use it anyway. Why? Do you think that creating it could put
in danger the current mail accesibility of our BTS? I don't think so.
Cheers.
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