On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Barry Smith wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > so 'mailto' is no good. > > Not everyone lives in a cave and uses the pony-express to communicate. Are > really most PETSc users and developers complete troglodytes? >
Well - most don't have mailto: configured from their web browser [eventhough they might use the spiffer new mail clients] I guess thats a one time setup cost though.. > Note that you can setup mailto links to go to Emacs > https://code.google.com/p/plume-lib/source/browse/bin/emacs-mailto-handler?name=v1.0.0 > and alpine https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mail.pine/puiLTBBQDBg > > Satish, > > I like the mailto: link you have set up and would like it to stay. It > looks great to me but it currently doesn’t do the address correctly: it gives > me petsc-maint.anl.gov > when it should give [email protected] fixed. > > Put it into next and master ok merged to next for now.. satish > > Thanks > > Barry > > Nix the form web submission form idea, MCS has such a primitive web server > system it will suck. > > > > > > > and just adding text "report errors to [email protected]" > > doesn't improve on status-quo. > > > > so 'web submission form' would be the prefered thingy? I'll have to > > check if thats feasiable.. > > > > Satish > > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Nystrom, William D wrote: > > > >> But if the user has to submit the error info by emailing manually, would > >> you likely lose some of the info you are trying to capture automatically? > >> > >> ________________________________________ > >> From: Jed Brown [[email protected]] > >> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 3:25 PM > >> To: Aron Ahmadia > >> Cc: Nystrom, William D; Satish Balay; petsc-dev > >> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] adding Report Typo and Errors link to manual pages > >> > >> Aron Ahmadia <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >>> Perhaps make the Email Address visible in the URL link? > >>> > >>> "Click here to report typos/errors to [email protected]". > >>> > >>> Make the entire statement a mailto link? Then anybody who gets in a > >>> confusing mailto situation will at least know what the URL was supposed to > >>> do (open a bug report). > >> > >> Good call, but lose the fluff: > >> > >> "report errors to [email protected]" > >> > > > >
