[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Adding comments to issues

  • From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:15:45 -0400

Mesar,

One other thing I forgot to put in my previous message is that I didn't see
a link to sign in. I was unsure of how to do that. Once I tried to add a bug
it came up with my e-mail address somehow and said you wanted to use it in
accord with your privacy policy. There was an Accept and Decline button at
the bottom of the page but both were stated as disabled. I pressed enter on
the Accept button and it worked anyway.


Best regards from Ohio,

Vic


-----Original Message-----
From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mesar Hameed
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 8:41 AM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Adding comments to issues

Hi Vic, sorry about any overcomplication, I just wanted to give all the
information in one email.
Please go to http://liblouis.mesarhameed.info and have a look around.
If you want to add a bug, click on bugs in the sidebar, and there should be
a text field called "add new bug titled:"
You will have to login using google or one of the other providers, or create
a new account, once that is done you can edit the text and submit it.
Looking forward to hearing your feedback.
thanks,
Mesar
On Thu 17/10/13,08:37, Vic Beckley wrote:
> Mesar,
> 
> You are making me feel stupid here. I don't understand this message or 
> how this would work. For example, how would I submit an issue or a 
> comment from a Windows PC?
> 
> 
> Best regards from Ohio,
> 
> Vic
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mesar 
> Hameed
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:05 PM
> To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Adding comments to issues
> 
> Ok, I have gone ahead and setup a test ikiwiki[1] instance, running 
> reachable at [2].
> 
> I have used ikiwiki privately and for the nvda community addons 
> website, and it can be used both as a wiki for documentation and a 
> simple and accessible bug tracker.
> Best of all is that for those that prefer the command line (including 
> me) it is just markdown files in a directory in our vcs.
> I have currently placed it in a separate branch so that it can be 
> eliminated easely if we chose to go with something else.
> 
> It allows everyone else using the web to log in using a ton of 
> authentication services, so people don't have to register to create 
> enhancement requests, bugs or add to the wiki.
> Also no need to solve any graphical or sound captcha.
> When anything is edited or added, it is automatically committed to the 
> svn, so that no one is forced to go online to action anything.
> We can lock pages that should not be edited, to allow only admins to 
> edit those.
> On the other hand if you edit the files in svn and commit, they should 
> come live on the website.
> 
> learning markdown is straightforward and is probably as close to raw 
> text as we could get.
> It is very configurable, and our team of nvda translators and addon 
> contributors seem to love it. Ikiwiki is also used for a lot of 
> software and non-software projects, some of wich are listed in [1].
> 
> This is just another possible solution to evaluate before deciding on 
> what might be most suitable.
> 
> After creating the original configuration file, there are no databases 
> or anything else to administrate, everything comes with the repository.
> So mirroring or moving servers is extremely simple.
> There is only one additional configuration file that I haven't 
> committed to the svn yet.
> 
> Markdown can be converted to docbook texinfo or many other formats 
> using pandoc amongst other things.
> 
> This solution solves our two recent discussions, with hopefully 
> maximum accessibility.
> 
> At the moment it will commit to the testwiki using my svn 
> authentication, we probably need to create a separate account for web 
> edits. I appologize for the commit mail this will cause while people test.
> 
> comments welcome.
> 
> [1]: http://ikiwiki.info
> [2]: http://liblouis.mesarhameed.info
> 
> thanks,
> Mesar
> 
> On Wed 16/10/13,09:05, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > As I said, a simple web form would be acceptable. No captchas! no 
> > Javascript. Combo boxes aren't necessary. they can be replaced with 
> > a series of radio buttons, with a select button at the end. I've 
> > done this in php. A good example of a simple website is
www.freelists.org .
> > It even works better in lynx than in elinks or IE. www.bookshare.org 
> > is also a good example, although it has become rather cluttered. O
> > 
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:03:40AM +0200, Bert Frees wrote:
> > > No I don't think opening an issue by email is supported out of the 
> > > box, although the Github API would allow it. For changing the 
> > > status it's probably the same story.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 2013/10/15 Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > >  This is what I was thinking of.
> > > >
> > > > I did not know about github allowing reply by email. Does it 
> > > > allow opening a issue by email and changing the status of the 
> > > > report by
> email?
> > > >
> > > > While it would require hosting it I know that a system like 
> > > > roundup offers all that.
> > > >
> > > > As John said though a simple web interface should be just as 
> > > > acceptable and I would imagine it would be easier to find a 
> > > > hosted solution with a simple web interface. However there does 
> > > > seem to be a trend for web developers to complicate the 
> > > > interface for no apparent reason, other than to show how much 
> > > > javascript/ajax/other web
> technology they can use.
> > > >
> > > > Michael Whapples
> > > > On 15/10/2013 21:08, Bert Frees wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm not saying "move to Github", but maybe there is an issue 
> > > > tracker out there that has the same feature, in which case the 
> > > > accessiblity of the web interface is not so crucial.
> > > >
> > > >  On 15 Oct 2013, at 22:06, Bert Frees wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  For what it's worth (and I haven't been following the 
> > > > discussion very closely, so maybe someone mentioned this 
> > > > before): the Github issue tracker has an "email reply support" 
> > > > feature[1], which basically means that you can follow and 
> > > > participate in conversations both with email and on the Github
website.
> > > >
> > > >  [1] https://github.com/blog/811-reply-to-comments-from-email
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > 
> > --
> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> > 
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to 
> > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> 
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to project 
> pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com

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