How do I report a bug? (Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils documentation amputated in 2.2 docs?) (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:21:17 +0200

On Wednesday, Apr 2, 2003, at 04:40 Europe/Amsterdam, Lalo Martins wrote:

Can someone please tell me how to submit a bug report? You need to login to sourceforge. Once you do that you should see a bar that looks like Submit New | Browse | Reporting | Admin the link you want is "Submit New".

Aargh, this is very bad! I'm always logged in when I visit sourceforge (and I assume that most of us are), I wasn't aware of the fact that if you are not logged in you get no indication whatsoever that it is possible to submit bugs.

Do we have control over what is on that page, i.e. could we add a note to the top saying "If you want to submit a new bug please log in first"?

Otherwise I think the "bugs" link on www.python.org should go to a local page which explains this before sending people off to the sourceforge tracker.

Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman