On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Huh? Next you’ll tell me that people don’t have http://…. configured for their web browsers. Still using Archie and Veronica for searches I guess. Barry > [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]" >>>> >>> >> >>
