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

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> 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?
>

Well - most don't have mailto: configured from their web browser [eventhough they might use the spiffer new mail clients]


I guess thats a one time setup cost though..

>    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
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>    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

fixed.

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>    Put it into next and master

ok merged to next for now..

satish

> 
>    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"
> >> 
> > 
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