[dev] User e-mail address in problem reports

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 06:20:09PM -0500, John Morrissey wrote:

> I sat down with a copy of HEAD this afternoon and I must say  I'm very
> impressed; kudos to everyone who had a hand in it.

Thanks. =)
 
> I'm wondering if you'd be interested in adding an e-mail address field for
> problem reporting. We have a lot of IMP-only users here who assume that
> since they're logged in, the problem reporting form knows who they are and
> don't bother to include their name/username in the body. I figure IMP could
> pass the logged-in user's e-mail address to the reporting form; that's what
> I currently do with a local patch; it'd be nice to maintain one less once
> 2.4 is out. Let me know and I'll whip something up.

I'd suggest submitting the patch (unified diff, please) to this list.
There's less thinking on our part that way. <grin>  If it looks good,
someone will commit.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member