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

[Bill Flanagan]

Excellent point.

Stupid me!

Ilya just finished moving the late great OWW admin list over to a Google
Group with an integral mailing list. We're doing the same for Discuss when
that one is stable. Already, the Google Group we set up for approving new
members is working well; it's fast, free of spam, and easy to maintain. The
content is much easier to search when needed.

I agree; using something like the 'contact us' extension would be a way to
do it.

For now, I'm concerned about current OWW users; writing seems to break
things more than reading!

B.



On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Bill,
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
>
> J
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> On May 17, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Bill Flanagan wrote:
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> 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.
>
> 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>
> wrote:
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>> That sounds like a good idea to me.  Maybe another mailing list like
>> contact at openwetware.
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>> J
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