On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I'd strongly prefer that they *not* do so. First off, it's > pointless to do so, since the web page is a lot easier to spam-spider > than the activity bundle. But fundamentally, I want to be able to use > semi-automated tools to email "all G1G1 activity authors", and having > to trawl through web pages to find where the email addresses have been > hidden is not my idea of a good time.
Different projects has different channels of communication, depending on the reason you are contacting them and the maintainer personal tastes. As an activity author I would not be comfortable about being contacted through semi-automated tools about bugs in my activity for example. Maybe it's just me... > > The activities database at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities > already has a 'source url' field for the web page. What is needed is > a means to (a) contact the maintainers, and (b) report bugs. A > webpage URL does neither of these things. It doesn't allow you to report bugs semi-automatically. But it certainly allows you to find out manually the bug tracker the project uses. Marco _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
