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Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling



OoO Lors  de la soirée naissante  du mardi 27 juillet  2010, vers 17:55,
Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org> disait :

> Probably easier: add a CGI-like interface to reportbug, and open a
> browser on it?  Since it *is* reportbug, it can continue grabbing
> whatever information is relevant using its scripts.  And then it's a
> matter of a menu entry (or a big fat icon) running "reportbug --http &
> sensible-browser http://localhost:$some-port/";.  AJAX to taste, then
> submit via local or remote SMTP.

This seems a sensible idea. However, any web interface would lead to the
same  problems that  were  raised with  reportbug-ng.  To my  knowledge,
useful  bug reports  need to  run interactive  console scripts  for some
packages. This could be solved with some AJAX terminal.
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panic("Unable to find empty mailbox for aha1542.\n");
	2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c

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