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

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> so 'mailto' is no good.

   Not everyone lives in a cave and uses the pony-express to communicate. Are really most PETSc users and developers complete troglodytes?

   Note that you can setup mailto links to go to Emacs https://code.google.com/p/plume-lib/source/browse/bin/emacs-mailto-handler?name=v1.0.0 and alpine https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mail.pine/puiLTBBQDBg

   Satish,

   I like the mailto: link you have set up and would like it to stay. It looks great to me but it currently doesn’t do the address correctly: it gives me petsc-maint.anl.gov
when it should give petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov

   Put it into next and master

   Thanks

   Barry

   Nix the form web submission form idea, MCS has such a primitive web server system it will suck.



> 
> 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"
>> 
>