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#19143 closed enhancement (fixed)
Make bug report CGI script drop anonymous reports from old ChimeraX versions
| Reported by: | Tom Goddard | Owned by: | Greg Couch |
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| Priority: | moderate | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Infrastructure | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | Eric Pettersen | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Notify when closed: | Platform: | all | |
| Project: | ChimeraX |
Description
To reduce the burden triaging duplicate bug reports we decided yesterday in ChimeraX meeting to not accept bug reports with no user email from older ChimeraX versions. We will have the CGI script that receives the bug reports check for these and not forward them via email to Trac and Eric. There should be a 1 month grace period after a new ChimeraX is released where we still accept anonymous reports from the previous release.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 3 weeks ago
comment:2 by , 3 weeks ago
We patched 1.10 because of some often encountered bugs so I think we should probably only take anonymous bugs for 1.10.1. That way we avoid getting the many duplicates of the 1.10 bugs that were patched.
comment:3 by , 3 weeks ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Makes sense to me too.
I changed the bug report dialog to catch HTTP CONFLICT errors and show the error message. And, correspondingly, I've changed the logic in the bug submission cgi script to give a HTTP CONFLICT error when the version of ChimeraX is too old. That only happens, if and only if, the version of ChimeraX is newer than my commit. For older versions of ChimeraX, it acts as before -- it returns HTTP OK for the bug report submission, but drops them. That way, when the current daily build is obsolete, the error response will say:
"<body><h3>Obsolete Version of ChimeraX Detected</h3>"
"<p>You need to update to the current version of Chimerax if you"
" want to report anonymously. Otherwise, please supply an email"
" address so we can tell you if the bug is already fixed or ask"
" for more information."
Other CONFLICT responses can be added later.
Right now, since there is a 1.10.1 release. Should we reject anonymous bug reports from 1.10?