Re: [sup-talk] [PATCH] minor nits in exception apology message

From: Jon Dugan <jdugan@es.net>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] [PATCH] minor nits in exception apology message
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:22:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256760970-sup-8118@arrakis.es.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256760295-sup-9873@peray>

Excerpts from Nicolas Pouillard's message of Wed Oct 28 15:05:27 -0500 2009:
> Excerpts from Jon Dugan's message of Wed Oct 28 18:14:51 +0100 2009:
> > make path to the exception log relative to BASE_DIR
> > fix a typo in email address of list.
> > 
> > ---
> >  bin/sup |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/bin/sup b/bin/sup
> > index 7641401..a881284 100755
> > --- a/bin/sup
> > +++ b/bin/sup
> > @@ -360,8 +360,8 @@ unless Redwood::exceptions.empty?
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >  I'm very sorry. It seems that an error occurred in Sup. Please
> >  accept my sincere apologies. If you don't mind, please send the
> > -contents of ~/.sup/exception-log.txt and a brief report of the
> > -circumstances to sup-talk at rubyforge dot orgs so that I might
> > +contents of #{BASE_DIR}/.sup/exception-log.txt and a brief report of the
> > +circumstances to sup-talk at rubyforge dot org so that I might
> 
> I think the *orgs* was on purpose.

I was wondering about that.  It seemed odd to me to be obfuscating the email
address at all in this context since this is an error message not a webpage.

In my mind the usability enhancement of being able to cut and paste the email
address would increase the likelyhood of people reporting errors.

Obviously not a big deal either way...

Jon
-- 
Jon M. Dugan <jdugan@es.net>
ESnet Network Engineering Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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