I think we should switch the winrash id field from the users first and last name to an email address we can contact the user at. There are a few odd errors that I'd like to get more information about but its difficult to contact people via their first and last name. Any objections to this? Winetest able to handle an email address as the username field?
Chris
From: "Dimitrie O. Paun" dpaun@rogers.com Date: 2004/06/03 Thu AM 01:30:05 EDT To: Ferenc Wagner wferi@afavant.elte.hu CC: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: Request for winetesting volunteers
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:22:02AM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
What's missing, what should be easier?
Now that you're asking: in the reports, I don't quite like that a single report for Win95 is listed as OSR2 in the main summary, but then it switches to Win95(n) when we have more than one. Similarly for Win98. This is very confusing.
For example, after the first submitted tests, the main summary header read:
OSR2 SE ME ....
I wasn't even sure what SE was. Anyway, I think the header should remain immutable:
Win95 Win98 ME NT3 NT4 2000 XP 2003
-- Dimi.
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:59:20AM -0400, chmorgan@charter.net wrote:
I think we should switch the winrash id field from the users first and last name to an email address we can contact the user at. There are a few odd errors that I'd like to get more information about but its difficult to contact people via their first and last name.
This is why I have asked people to send a small note to wine-devel, but it seems that nobody bothered. So yes, I agree that the email would be good, but not as the ID, the reports will be much uglified (the names are already a bit long right now).
The way to do it (I think) is to ask for the email address as a separate field during the install, and include it in the metadata that winetest is sending back (through another switch; we should have a -M switch that just appends metadata to the one already bundled with winetest, this would allow us to include dynamic stuff, like this email address).
"Dimitrie O. Paun" dpaun@rogers.com writes:
the email would be good, but not as the ID, the reports will be much uglified (the names are already a bit long right now).
We could easily chop those long tags to 6-7 chars. Shall we?
we should have a -M switch that just appends metadata to the one already bundled with winetest, this would allow us to include dynamic stuff, like this email address).
Do you mean something like -M key:file or -M key=value? I agree that something like this should probably be added.
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:56:51PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
We could easily chop those long tags to 6-7 chars. Shall we?
Yes, we should because ATM we don't control them, and we can not allow unlimited strings in there. But 6-7 is a bit drastic. Looking at current result, even 20 chars is still OK. For example we have:
DimitrisKoukoravas JackHollingworth
we can't quite shorten these meaningfully. I'd have: 1. Un upper limit of around 20-25 chars 2. Maybe a smart splitter that would split the ID's at capitalization points:
Dimitris Jack Koukoravas Hollingworth 3. Decrease the font size even more. Right now it's <small>, but we can do a <font size=-5> or somesuch.
Do you mean something like -M key:file or -M key=value? I agree that something like this should probably be added.
Yes, something like that. I'm not sure we need a key/value syntax (do we?), even just -M string would do. But if all metadata is in the key,value format, sure, -M key=value would be great.
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