Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Getting good bug reports"): > Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > The reason why there is a problem with an http submission interface is > > that suddenly every idiot will think "oh I must write a cool ui for > > this". > > But with the tunneling suggested below the cool UI would have to talk > smtp as well as http to setup the connection. So actualy doing this via > http would be even harder than with plain smtp. So your argument doesn't > hold.
Oh I see. I'm not sure that implementing a complicated layered thing like that. How would you do sessions, anyway, or would you present the whole SMTP session in a single transaction? I don't think we should be implementing a perverse protocol out of fear of a sociopolitical problem unless we don't have another way of addressing the sociopolitical problem. > Note: I'm not proposing bugs.d.o (or anyone else) gets an http > submission interface. Just an interface to talk to the smtpd via http. It should have the reportbug version string in the protocol, as I described earlier. > > The "bts" command is less relevant because it is run on your > > workstation rather than some kind of installation target. > > If my workstation is behing one of those stupid ISPs that don't allow > smtp ... My point is that you have to do a lot of setup to make your workstation work like you want it to anyway. Having to provide "bts" (and indeed perhaps other commands) with a way to send email is just one of those. It's much less of a problem than for reportbug, which you often want to run on some kind of half-broken test setup. > And the tunneling would keep your barrier intact. I think it's ugly but that's not really an objection. If the BTS admins are happy with it. I still think we need the understanding that this will be used only by programs which gain consensus here. We can probably get that consensus for bts, provided bts doesn't grow a way to submit bugs. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/19934.11176.186232.911...@chiark.greenend.org.uk