On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:16:58AM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote:
> On 10/6/06, Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I got something that can send you directly to rt.cpan.org and prefill
> >the textarea with the patch. The problem is that that textarea has
> >hard text wrapping which can cause the patch to be malformed.
> >Therefore, to make life easier for the module maintainer, the patch
> >should be attached as a file. The sad part for the patcher is that the
> >file can't be transmitted easily from one form to the other. The best
> >protocol I could come up with is the following:
> I'm thinking now that a convenient solution for the user would be to
> send the bug report directly by email (from annocpan.org to
> rt.perl.org, with From: being the user's email); that way I can
> include an attachment so the patch won't be messed up. Some drawbacks,
> if I understand RT correctly, are that the report would not be
> associated with an rt.cpan.org user account and the user won't be able
> to set some of the metadata (such as version numbers).
Given that {annocpan,rt}.perl.org both know who the user is, and both are
written in Perl, isn't there some web API available from RT that would let
an authenticated machine file a bug report with unmangled patch?
Nicholas Clark
