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From: Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
To: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changes to gnatsweb.pl
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040920163312.GI30447@wookimus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1C8Slb-0003bX-68@lists.gnu.org>


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Stuart Stevens wrote:
> 1.  After the submit, the following web page displays the new PR
>     number which the user can click on.

Sweet!  I would assume that you can submit patches through the Savannah
interface[1]_ for gnatsweb[2]_.

> 2. Sections were added by creating dummy field entries in the GNATS
>    database.  Each field began with the word "Separator" and the
>    description field contained the text of the separation.

That sounds like a hack.  Effective, no doubt, but hackish.  What do you
mean by "sections"?

>    Quick links were added to the top of the web page.  "edit" or
>    "submit" buttons were added to the "view" and "edit" pages.

Useful.  However, isn't the "edit" and "submit" buttons already shown on
the view and edit pages, respectively?

> 3. If field is Notes than blank it on the edit screen.  This was
>    needed to support the pseudo append-only field.

Hmm...  Perhaps we should look to support append-only fields in GNATS
itself.  This sounds like a nice workaround for gnatsweb.

> 4. Load a database specific $gnatsweb_site_file if it exists.  This
>    was added after init_prefs().

That's useful. ;-)

References
==========
.. [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=gnatsweb 
.. [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnatsweb

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-18 14:54 Stuart Stevens
2004-09-20 20:32 ` Chad Walstrom [this message]
2004-09-28 14:46   ` Stuart Stevens
2004-09-21 19:33 ` Yngve Svendsen

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