Barbie wrote:
> The notification system will run once a day and collate a list of the
> links to the reports via the web interface on the NNTP server. As such,
> you will no longer receive huge reports in your inbox, but at most just
> one email a day containing a list of links to your reports. You can then
> view them at your leisure. If you have any problems with the
> notifications themselves, please let me know, and I would welcome any
> suggestions for improvements.
Great work! Now, on with the complaining!
At first glance this new system is going to generate a lot more work per
report. Let's step through the old procedure...
1. Read report
2. Reply to report
Ok, great. Maybe I got a lot of email, but I can deal with that, and the
reports came in immediately and spread out over time. I can manage if I want
to deal with each immediately or at a later time. Once I deal with one I can
just delete it, removing it from the queue.
Now let's look at the new system.
1. Wait until the end of the day for email.
2. Click link in email.
3. Pull focus back to email after my browser stole it.
(Admittedly, not your fault, but a common behavior I'm sure)
4. Goto 2 until all links clicked on.
5. Read web page.
6. Copy tester id
7. Go to magic "Find A Tester" URL
8. Paste tester id
(which, at the moment, is responding with a blank page)
9. Copy tester email address
10. Goto mail client
11. Compose new message
12. Paste tester email address
13. CC cpan-testers
14. Go back to browser
15. Copy subject line
16. Go back to mail client
17. Paste subject line
18. Add re
19. Go back to browser
20. Copy message
21. Go back to mail client
22. Paste message as quotation
23. Add "Such and such wrote:" to the top
24. Reply to email
25. Goto 5.
Ick. I hope I'm missing something obvious maybe?
Additionally, I no longer get immediate reports, so I have to wait until the
end of the day to fix a problem. I lose the ability to decide when to deal
with failure reports. This means obvious, stupid failures are going to pile
up. I won't be surprised if I get a lot more FAIL reports just because of
stupid mistakes remaining unfixed longer, each one of which I have to manually
check.
Because they all come in at one lump, I have to deal with them in one lump.
There's no easy system to tell which ones I've dealt with (previously I'd just
delete the mail) and which ones I haven't.
The way it looks right now, I want my CC's back. :(
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