I received quite a few answers on my request for help yesterday. Thanks to you guys and gals, Reportbug-NG now also supports Opera, KMail, Pine and GoogleMail (yes I know, that’s crazy).
read moreDear Lazyweb,
Icedove, Iceape, Evolution, Sylpheed, Sylpheed-Claws and Mutt.
Is your favorite mail client missing? Does your mail client accept URLs in mailto-format? If yes, please drop me a note containing the name of your mail client, if it needs a terminal (like mutt) and an example call which starts the client …
read moreReportbug-NG in Unstable
Just a few minutes ago reportbug-ng was accepted and should be available in unstable tomorrow (For the impatient: you can already get it from incoming).
If you can spare some time please test it and send me suggestions, bugreports and stuff.
read moreReportbug-NG at Alioth
Yesterday I mentioned a small project of mine called reportbug-ng. The feedback so far was very positive. Looks like quite a few people out there would like to see a desktop version of reportbug.
Since I’ve already received a few patches via email, I decided to move the project …
read moreA Screencast is Worth a Thousand Pictures
It’s still in a very early stage (I’ve started coding it yesterday), but it’s basic functionality is already there: You can query the BTS, filter the list of bugreports in realtime by typing something and view the full bugreports in HTML. You can even provide additional information …
read moreDecoupling Presentation from Logic
Reading Sam’s platform, I applaud his plans to sex up our web appearance which is IMHO overdue.
While redesigning our website shouldn’t be much of a technical problem, redesigning our BTS could become one:
I noticed that reportbug and bts are basically querying the BTS via HTTP as …
read moreUsing My Favorite Mailclient When Reporting Bugs
Dear Lazyweb,
is there an option in reportbug allowing me to use Thunderbird (KMail, foo, …) to write the bugreport? I’m currently using vim, but Thunderbird’s spell checker is much more convenient to use and copy-pasting from KDE into vim is not working very well, making it cumbersome to …
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