[OSM-talk] Proposal for a map-bug tracker (Openstreetbugs)

[Steffen Vogel]

Am Donnerstag, den 27.11.2008, 18:30 +0000 schrieb Christoph Böhme:
> Hi!
> 
> Florian Lohoff <flo at rfc822.org> schrieb:
> > I'd vote for making the OSB as simple as possible - as soon as you
> > require a login or filling in some drop downs we'll loose Aunt Tilly
> > with her good local knowledge.
> 
> I am completely with you here. However, while Aunt Tilly wants a
> no-frills interface mappers who are dealing with bugs need a bit more
> functionality. There might be also people willing and able to provide
> more detailed bug reports. They should  have the option to do so.
> IMO, the problem is to put these three things together.
> 
> I think, it is quite clear that we need an Aunt Tilly-interface to the
> bugtracker with the following features:
> 
>  - no registration required
	Unfortunatly Bugzilla don't provides this feature.
	But I already found a solution:
	I've created a guest user.
	Any bug reports thru the slippy map will be added
	as reports from the guest user.

>  - only a single text field to describe the error
	No problem. Default values for other fields will be set.

>  - optional email address if the reporter wishes to be contacted
	There is a way to add people to the CC header of a mail.
	I have to prove that this is also possible for nonregistred persons.

>  
> So, basically what openstreetbugs is now. Though, I see no point
> why things behind this interface could be a bit more advanced. Since
> only mappers will use them. I also see no reason why the Aunt
> Tilly-interface should not contain a link saying advanced which shows
> some more options (like classification and so on).
> 
> 	Christoph
> 
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