Re: bug tracking

[Rob Mahurin]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:36:19PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Do you have a suggestion for how we can update it to do something
> useful?  Should it simply print out information about how to report
> bugs, possibly with information that would be useful to include in the
> tracker's submission form?

Having bug_report actually report bugs is a nice feature.  

urlwrite can send POST requests, so in principle, bug_report could
collect the desired fields, submit the form, and give the user a URL
to examine their bug in the tracker.

This would introduce a maintenance burden to keep bug_report
synchronized with the tracker's submission form.  For instance, right
now the submission page is asking a captcha (paptcha?) question about
George Orwell, and that question will probably be different in two
years when slow upgraders are still using the soon-to-be-released Octave.

I have just done this successfully:
        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29354

There's some other auto-generated form fields, which can perhaps be
identified by some fancy text-scraping.
 
Comments?

Rob