draft notice text

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Fri Sep 17 16:17:05 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 04:29, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:19, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 17:38, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > > Brock Organ wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 16:52 -0400, Tammy Fox wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >>I was about to add the common draft notice file from bug #132415, but I
> > > >>wanted to discuss the wording of the notice a bit more. (This was
> > > >>discussed on the Hardening Doc Preview thread, but I am starting a new
> > > >>one with a more appropriate subject.)
> > > >>
> > > >>Thoughts?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > sounds good to me ...
> > > 
> > > Me, too. A nice improvement:)
> > 
> > I also like this!
> 
> +1 for a complete consensus :)

Then let it be so. I've added this to CVS and closed out the bug.

Thanks for the feedback.

Tammy

> 
> > The URL <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=######>
> > always works in my experience (for non-restricted bugs of course). If
> > the writer uses too long a URL, the editor can fix it without a problem.
> > 
> > Or for that matter, I suppose we could have a common entity:
> > 
> > <!ENTITY SYSTEM BZ-Q
> > "http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=">
> > 
> > And in the writer's doc:
> > 
> > <!ENTITY SYSTEM BUG-URL "&BZ-Q;######">
> 
> Strike SYSTEM from that usage.
> 
> > 
> > But maybe that's just too much work? Not sure.
> 
> Seems simpler to go with a locally defined entity that is the bug #.
> 
> FWIW, this works:  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/XXXXXX
> 
> I think Mark is thinking of a pre-filled bug report such as the one that
> I use for the SELinux FAQ.  For getting proper feedback, it is
> invaluable -- it prefills the product, version, and component, sets the
> blocker bug and assigned to, suggests a useful title-style, should have
> the latest version number embedded already, and has specific suggestions
> for filling out a bug report unique to this project.  However, it looks
> like this:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Core&op_sys=Linux&version=fc3test2&component=fedora-docs&component_text=&rep_platform=All&priority=normal&bug_severity=normal&bug_status=NEW&assigned_to=kwade%40redhat.com&cc=&estimated_time=0.0&bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.redhat.com%2Fkwade%2Ffedora-docs%2Fselinux-faq-en%2F&short_desc=SELinux%20FAQ%20-%20%5Bsummarize%20FAQ%20change%20or%20addition%5D&comment=Description%20of%20change%2FFAQ%20addition.%20%20If%20a%20change%2C%20include%20the%20original%0D%0Atext%20first%2C%20then%20the%20changed%20text%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AVersion-Release%20of%20FAQ%20%28found%20on%0D%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fpeople.redhat.com%2Fkwade%2Ffedora-docs%2Fselinux-faq-en%2Fln-legalnotice.html%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%20for%20example%3A%20selinux-faq-1.3%20%282004-09-15-T04%3A20-0800%29%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A&keywords=&dependson=&blocked=118757%20%20&maketemplate=Remember%20values%20as%20bookmarkable%20tem!
pl!
> ate&form_name=enter_bug
> 
> I use a <ulink/> with descriptive link text. :)
> 
> How about:
> 
> 1. If it is just a link to the bug report, then:
> 
> <!ENTITY BUG-URL "http://bugzilla.redhat.com/XXXXXX">
> 
>   usage:
> 
> <ulink url="&BUG-URL;"/>
> 
> 2. If it is a Really Long URL, then following the same solution to
> define the entity, but usage is:
> 
> <ulink url="BUG-URL;">pre-filled bug report</ulink>
> 
> NOTE - if you use a long URL that includes '&' characters, you _must_
> change them to & in the XML so that they process into the correct
> characters when rendered.
> 
> - Karsten
> -- 
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