On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Michael Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > > Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:51:19 +0000, Michael Abbott wrote: > > > I hope this is going to the right place. I've tried to submit a Trac > > > ticket at http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ but unfortunately it > > > won't let me log in, even though I've registered and successfully > logged > > > in as a SciPy user! Grr. > > Logged on the scipy.org wiki, or on the Trac? Numpy Trac, Scipy Trac and > > the scipy.org website all require separate registrations. > > Well. Bear with me... > > First the web sites. I can find three different websites that appear to > be relevant to NumPy. Let's take a look, shall we? > > 1. http://numpy.scipy.org > > This is the first link on Google and appears to be the proper home of > Numpy ... but although there's an extended essay on what Numpy is, and > there are links to download the current version and to trelgol.com > (bizzarely blocked by my employers!), there are no development resources > there. Oh, tell a lie: there's an e-mail address for this mailing list, > but no links to the sign-on page or the archives. > > 2. http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/ > > As the downloads are hosted here, this must be the proper home? Evidently > not. > > Ok, back to Google. > > 3. http://www.scipy.org/NumPy > > Oh, that's odd. We're back on scipy.org, but in a different place. How > very strange. Well, at least there's a Mailing Lists link ... and where > do bugs go? Developer Zone? Ok. > > FINALLY I find out where the current SVN branch is hosted. Good grief. > Now to report my bug... > > > Evidently I go to NumPy Developer's wiki (interesting -- is it Numpy or > NumPy?) at http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy and register by following > the link to "register first" at ... wait for ... at > > http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/register > > Notice that there is no numpy in that URL? > > When I finish registering (I notice with surprise that there's no e-mail > for any notification, validation or lost password recovery; that's a > shame), I'm taken to http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy , which is > hardly surprising, but very confusing -- I wrote my ticket but finally > noticed that I was on the SciPy tracker before submitting it. > > Earlier I'm sure I found text on the Developer Zone page to the effect > that only one login was required. I can't find it now, maybe it's been > edited, or I'm looking in the wrong place. Anyhow, the fact remains that > there is no link to the numpy registration page. > > Well well well. If I manually edit the link (Trac won't actually let me > visit the SciPy registration page anymore, oddly enough) to > > http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/register > > then I get a new registration page. And, remarkably, it works (though > giving separate passwords for the two logins creates its own headaches > with Firefox). > > Curiously, you didn't find the root page: http://www.scipy.org/. At the top there are icons that link to all the things you were looking for. I blame Google ;) Chuck
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