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

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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

   Huh? Next you’ll tell me that people don’t have http://….    configured for their web browsers.  Still using Archie and Veronica for searches I guess.

   Barry



> [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.
> 
>> 
>>   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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