[OWW-Discuss] We have no way to let folks know there's a place to enter bugs...

[Barry Canton]

I agree that it would be good to make the path to reporting a bug
obvious.  I also think the "contact us" page might be sufficient.  We
could edit the text on that page to say that if you want to send us
email, do so, alternatively post a bug report at
OpenWetWare:Software/Bugs.

Given that we have quite a few links on the sidebar, it might be
better to maximize usage of "Contact us".  We could edit the title to
something like "Feedback? Bugs? Tell us".

Barry

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Bill,
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> If you want to continue using that page, then put a link to it on the
> toolbar on the front page called 'Report a Bug'.  However this limits bug
> reports to OWW users (probably the majority of people who will find bugs),
> but I bet other non-members will find bugs too.  In that case a mailing list
> would allow everyone to submit bugs, and we've had great success with the
> contact list I think.  Is it easy to inject a mailing list into a page?
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> Cheers,
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> J
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> On May 17, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Bill Flanagan wrote:
> Julius,
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> Good idea. But for now, we already have a page; I get email when it's
> updated using the page watch function. For now, I have no problem with this.
> Since I'm typically the bug fixer, I don't mind continuing to monitor it.
> Anyone else can watch the page and comment.
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> If we get to the point where we put in a more sophisticated bug tracker,
> I'll hope we can just add a package rather than building it ourself; there
> are scores of them out there.
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> My question for the community is how best do we let people know that they
> can use the OpenWetWare:Software/Bugs page to report errors?
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> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:23 PM, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com>
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> > That sounds like a good idea to me.  Maybe another mailing list like
> contact at openwetware.
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Barry Canton
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