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Petteri Räty posted <43839B31.2050005@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:26:57 +0200: |
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> Jochen Maes wrote: |
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>> Hello all, |
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>> I'd appreciate a nice welcome and a descent slap on the butt when you |
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>> pass him... |
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>> Joshua, welcome! |
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> http://tinyurl.com/n9qb |
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> I hope to see this list near hundred soon! |
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OK, this is a gripe of mine, so... |
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1) There's only the tinyurl, no indication at all of where it actually |
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points, or what the "list" is! Surely, a bit of a description might be |
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useful. Something like "(buglist of <whatever>)". (I'm composing this |
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having gone to the URL but still have no idea of what <whatever> is, |
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because there's no title and the URL is too long to easily figure out |
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what's being searched on.) |
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2) The URL actually pointed to is: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=java%40gentoo.org&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= |
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Obviously that's waaayyyy... too long to be of much use, so a tinyurl is |
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appreciated. However, a lot of those query substrings are empty or the |
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default or otherwise unneeded. Trimming the cruft should result in a |
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far shorter URL that actually conveys a bit of information. With a URL of |
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this lenth, the easiest way to do that is to paste the URL into an editor |
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and trim from there. Trim a bit, then try the link to see if it still |
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works, then trim some more... |
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Here's what I came up with after a bit of trial and error. Note that the |
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original URL poster, knowing what he's after and thus knowing which fields |
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are likely to be relevant, could have done the same with rather less |
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trouble. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=java%40gentoo.org |
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Still not short, so a tinyurl is still useful, but /far/ shorter than the |
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above, and it's actually possible to see what this one is looking for: |
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a) bugstatus=NEW/ASSIGNED/REOPENED |
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and |
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b) emailassigned_to=java@g.o (exact match). |
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OK, how much easier would it have been to just post this: |
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List of open bugs assigned to java@: |
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http://tinyurl.com/<whatever> |
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Note also that some don't like clicking on blind URLs, even with |
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descriptions. Thus, optionally: |
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List of open bugs assigned to java@: |
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http://tinyurl.com/<whatever> (points to) |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=java%40gentoo.org |
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That way, both those who don't want to trust a blind link, and those that |
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are reading the list on long-url munging clients, have a link to click. |
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Further, even if the long URL ends up munged, it's possible to see what it |
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is, and to reassemble it, if desired. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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