Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Getting good bug reports"):
> So everyone is allowed to write a frontend to report bugs via smtp. But
> only reportbug is allowed to use http? That seems a bit stupid.No-one _wants_ to write a frontend to report bugs via smtp, and doing so as a simple serverless web application is probably nearly impossible. So that is a moot problem. The reason why there is a problem with an http submission interface is that suddenly every idiot will think "oh I must write a cool ui for this". > Any tool generating valid mails to bugs.debian.org should also be > allowed to send them via http. Specifically I would like the "bts" > command to work over http too if reportbug does. The "bts" command is less relevant because it is run on your workstation rather than some kind of installation target. > Why not just make it an smtp-over-http tunnel with the clear limit of > only accepting mail to bug.debian.org. I mean the problem is ISPs that > don't allow an smtp connect to bugs.d.o so lets circumvent that > limitation by using http underneath. The opposition to http submission is because of the slippery slope argument I set out earlier. I think it's a more than hypothetical problem - see how many people in this thread have advocated precisely the things that sceptics (like me) don't want. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
