On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to > Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is > capable of submitting a useful bug report? yes, actually. wrt web based interfaces: sure, it lowers the bar a bit, but if implemented intelligently it could require a certain minimum level of quality. but more important imho though is clearly discerning between "a web based interface" and an "HTTP interface". i don't really have a strong opinion wrt teh web based interface, but having a cgi backend somewhere to process HTTP POST submissions in a similar format to what the debbugs server processes woudl be a Very Good Thing. as others have pointed out smtp is increasingly blocked by network administrators, and furthermore it's becoming more and more common for a system to not have an installed/active MTA running on it. and wrt the suggestion of "just use webmail" posted later on: this would also count as a "web based interface", and imo would be the worst kind since you have no automatic information gathering, no input checking, and it's rather unintuitive. sean
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