The following reply was made to PR general/2763; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: general/2763: More suggestions, really: I've not discovered anywhere else for them Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 01:18:42 -0700 (PDT) On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, John Summerfield wrote: > Whatever it means, such reports would be improved on any emailed reports > containing whatever the author thinks relevant: judging from usenet > postings, the quality varies greatly, many useless. > > If the report's generated on the offending system, you can pick up alsort > of useful information and present it in a standard easily-parsed form. I really don't see it being practical or overly useful to allow this. We already get a huge number of dupe PRs even though we have a big link to the FAQ, known bugs, etc. before you submit one. If people could generate them "offline", then they couldn't access that. We would also loose all ability to add such things as necessary to the bug reporting process after the fact. I really don't see it being all that unreasonable to require that someone have access to the web to be able to submit the bug report. If they have to email themself information to a location where they can access the web, so be it.
