On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:12:30 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 10:30:53 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:58:27 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > Quite likely. But it doesn't bolster your case and has absolutely >> > nothing to do with bugzilla shenanagins. >> >> Since when having options is something bad? An http gateway would be a >> great step forward (you could report bugs from any machine in the event >> the one you have to report against cannot even be booted) and the above >> report demonstrates the needing of alternatives to the usual reportbug >> system. > > We should be clear that the referenced bug report proposes being able to > submit *email* to bugs.debian.org via http. As an alternative transport > system it may have advantages for some people in some cirumstances, port > 25 being blocked, for example.
Yes, that's one of the limitations of the current system. > So that could be regarded as a good option but it does not involve > anything like web forms, scripts, HTML5 etc. In other words, it would > be business as usual for the 'reportbug system'. Yes, but I take it as a starting point. In the future these new additions could be used to develop an http gateway for reportbug or could also be used as the base to make a complete re-design of the current bug reporting tool... that's what I said. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.10.12.13.43...@gmail.com