Am Wednesday 13 September 2006 23:51 schrieb Filipus Klutiero: > Jose Luis Rivas Contreras a écrit : > > [...] > >>>Thank you very much, I'm already sending this to the upstream. > >> > >>I've just got this very first email from the debian bugtracking system > >>which seems to be sent to inform me that there is a question about why > >>list asks twice for the confirmation to sent data. > >> > >>Well the first question is a general question for confirmation if list > >> is allowed to send data, whatever data would be needed. > >>The second question (the second three questions) is specially for > >> these three things (kernel, modules and x11 config), because these > >> things are also security related things where some people are very > >> afraid and careful to send such things. > >>I've added these many question on purpose. Because it is better to ask > >>someone several times to send dangerous data instead of not asking at > >> all, isn't it? The user has to be absolutly sure that he is willing > >> to give this data away. > > I generally understand that. However, it is *not* better to ask several > times an important question just because it's an important question. If > you think the question, or the three last points, need to be emphasized, > you could use colors, capitalization or other means to attract the > user's attention. Also, there is a middleland between asking twice and > not asking...namely asking once.
Well it disturbed me since I've implemented those many questions. ;) I'll see what to do to get rid of these many questions by using more colors or similar formatting stuff. Thanks for pointing this out. > >>And by the way, you can automatically answer all questions with the > >>appropriate switch, see the --help for information about that. > [...] > > > >Thank you very much for your explanation Alexander, then I will proceed > >to close this bug if this topic is cleared, I will wait a week for > >closing this bug. > > Jose, thank you for your patience before closing this bug and your quick > answers to bug reports (it doesn't even need to be so fast ;) ). > I replied to Alexander above. If my reply doesn't convince > you/Alexander, please avoid closing this bug, but simply tag it > "wontfix" for now. > > Thank you -- Alexander 'dma147' Mieland 2.6.17-ck1-r3-my1 SMP GnuPG-ID: 27491179 Registered Linux-User #249600 http://blog.linux-stats.org http://www.linux-stats.org http://www.mieland-programming.de http://www.php-programs.de
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