On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:51 +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> Thank you, Marc, for your suggestion.
My pleasure Martin.
> >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:15:00 -0500 writes:
>
> Marc> Hi all,
> Marc> I would like to recommend that the following text from the R Posting
> Marc> Guide be placed on the R Bug submission page in the section "Submit
> New
> Marc> Reports", which would read as follows:
>
> Marc> Submit New Reports
>
> Marc> You can submit new bug reports either using an online form by
> clicking
> Marc> on the button below or by sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> actually, nobody should advertize that e-mail (but maybe those
> at ku.dk, when they talk about it inside DK),
> but rather [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
>
> The advantage of the latter is its "genericity" and the fact
> that mails are filtered a bit more.
That e-mail above (biostat.ku.dk) is the one presently on the R Bugs
page (both the text and the mailto: link).
> Marc> Before you post a real bug report, make sure you read R Bugs in the
> Marc> R-faq. If you're not completely and utterly sure something is a bug,
> Marc> post a question to r-help, not a bug report to r-bugs - every bug
> report
> Marc> requires manual action by one of the R-core members.
>
> Marc> If you wish to comment upon an existing report, you cannot do that
> via
> Marc> the web interface. Instead send an email to the above address with
> the
> Marc> Subject: header containing (PR#999) -- replace 999 with actual
> report
> Marc> number, of course.
>
> ------------
>
> Marc> Perhaps reading that brief middle section, without having to click
> to
> Marc> another page, will help to reduce user error reports going to R
> Bugs and
> Marc> save members of R Core some time.
>
> Note that we (well, primarily Peter Dalgaard) have considered
> complete changes to the R-bugs "system" anyway some of which
> would obliterate the e-mail interface completely IIRC.
Bugzilla? ;-)
JitterBug of course is no longer actively maintained by the Samba folks.
> Marc> Also, as a quick pointer, I noted that there is a repeated word
> ("for")
> Marc> on the R Home Page in the "Getting Started" box:
>
> > R is a free software environment _for for_ statistical computing and
> > graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms,
> > Windows and MacOS. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN
> > mirror.
>
> I've fixed that one --- haven't checked for how many months this
> has remained unreported....
>
> Thank you, Marc!
> Martin
You are welcome Martin. I don't often go to the main page, as I have
specific pages bookmarked in Firefox. It just happened to catch my eye.
Marc
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