Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 00:49, Olivier Bonvalet <debian.list@daevel.fr> wrote:
>> then set the right permission on the config file and use smtppasswd
>> (man reportbug.conf for more info). You can also save the output from
>> reportbug on a file and send the report from another machine.
>>
>
> 1) store smtppasswd in reportbug.conf : for sure, I will let my SMTP
> passwords in clear text everywhere.
you missed the part where I said "then set the right permission on the
config file" :) if you're not the only one (and so you could use the
~/.reportbugrc file with perms that *only* the user read it) reporting
bugs on that machine, then either you don't provide an email
capability for users on that server (f.e. a local MTA forwarding to
the real one) or any other users have to know that pwd.
> 2) store output in a file, read it, then copy/paste on my MUA : you call
> that user friendly ? ;)
No, but it's a viable solution (and I heard several people are already
doing similar stuff).
Regards,
Sandro
PS: I don't know how much of this still belongs to d-devel (honestly,
very few of the discussions about reportbug arisen from this thread
does) and so you might probably want to move the conversation to
reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org .
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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