[petsc-dev] adding Report Typo and Errors link to manual pages

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Jan 6 16:52:22 CST 2014


so 'mailto' is no good.

and just adding text "report errors to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov"
doesn't improve on status-quo.

so 'web submission form' would be the prefered thingy? I'll have to
check if thats feasiable..

Satish

On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Nystrom, William D wrote:

> But if the user has to submit the error info by emailing manually, would
> you likely lose some of the info you are trying to capture automatically?
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Jed Brown [jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 3:25 PM
> To: Aron Ahmadia
> Cc: Nystrom, William D; Satish Balay; petsc-dev
> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] adding Report Typo and Errors link to manual pages
> 
> Aron Ahmadia <aron at ahmadia.net> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps make the Email Address visible in the URL link?
> >
> > "Click here to report typos/errors to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov".
> >
> > Make the entire statement a mailto link?  Then anybody who gets in a
> > confusing mailto situation will at least know what the URL was supposed to
> > do (open a bug report).
> 
> Good call, but lose the fluff:
> 
>   "report errors to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov"
> 




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