Activity Backward Compatibility (was re: Re: joyride 2128 smoketest)

[Eben Eliason]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org>
> wrote:> The activities database at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities
> > already has a 'source url' field for the web page.  What is needed is
> > a means to (a) contact the maintainers, and (b) report bugs.  A
> > webpage URL does neither of these things.
>
> It doesn't allow you to report bugs semi-automatically. But it
> certainly allows you to find out manually the bug tracker the project
> uses.
>

What an email does do is allow, for instance, the Log activity to actually
be useful in practice, since the "send log" button can send the log to the
people who might actually look at it and make any necessary changes to their
code.

- Eben
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