[maemo-developers] Can someone take care of bugs #9494 and #9608 the web interface is on what rely tester to thumb down

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 20:17:16 Andrew Flegg wrote:
>     XSBC-Bugtracker: mailto:khertan at khertan.net
>
> ...and that the bug is that it is output as <a
> href="khertan at khertan.net"> which was the value of the control file
> field in an earlier version of the package?

In retrospect, I think that the mailto scheme is actually the correct one and 
that the 'historical' plain mail address is the one more likely to cause 
trouble in the future. Let me elaborate: if we use automatic 
tools/applications (extras-assistant, appwatch, something based on texrat's 
framework, you name it), defining an URL there is the right thing to do: if 
it's a mailto: scheme, the browser will open the mail client, so it will work. 
With putting simple mail addresses in there, any potential automated client 
(including the maemo.org interface) will have to make this analysis whether 
the giver string is a mail address, whether it's correct, etc, etc. I'm 
inclined to say the bugtracker should be a proper URL (whether http or mailto 
doesn't matter as long as it can be automatically handled with a browser). The 
maemo.org interface will have to take this into account either way. Of course, 
should we reach an agreement of such a change, we should probably send out a 
notification mail to all package maintainers using the 'old' scheme in the 
bugtracker fields (not that difficult to find with grep). Comments welcome.

Regards,
Attila