Debian Developers - Bug#242419: general: need for a webbased BTS

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Bug#242419: general: need for a webbased BTS

Tollef Fog Heen

2004-04-07, 8:42 am

* Don Armstrong

| On Tue, 06 Apr 2004, Riku Voipio wrote:
| > If a customer thinks a web interface is easier to use than
| > reportbug, she/he is right.
|
| Beyond the trivial aspects of Debian not having customers, if you
| could go into more detail why reportbug is difficult to use, that
| would be more usefull than just claiming that a web interface is
| better.

A way would be to make a GUI version of reportbug which reports
through CORBA/XML-RPC or some other mechanism to an interface which
then files the bug in Debian's BTS. It could probably also just
connect to the SMTP server bugs.debian.org has and use that to file
the bug directly.

No, I'm not volunteering to do that, but I'm saying it can be done.

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Marc Haber

2004-04-11, 3:13 pm

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 11:39:30 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>
wrote:
>It could probably also just
>connect to the SMTP server bugs.debian.org has and use that to file
>the bug directly.

If we then send a copy to the submitter, we have built an open mail
relay. Additionally, tcp port 25 blocking is happening more and more
often, which I find disturbing.

Greetings
Marc

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