Re: Error logging in to my profile

Hello all,

Thanks for pointing out this bug. I'll try to fix it in the upcoming days.

Andrei

On 9/17/2012 6:20 PM, Henry Story wrote:
>
> On 17 Sep 2012, at 18:17, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net 
> <mailto:henry.story@bblfish.net>> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17 Sep 2012, at 18:05, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:scorlosquet@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Henry Story 
>>> <henry.story@bblfish.net <mailto:henry.story@bblfish.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 17 Sep 2012, at 17:52, Melvin Carvalho
>>>     <melvincarvalho@gmail.com <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On 17 September 2012 17:48, Henry Story
>>>>     <henry.story@bblfish.net <mailto:henry.story@bblfish.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         Melvin, can you add context when you post mails to the list?
>>>>         A few lines of explanation of where you found this error
>>>>         message,
>>>>         and why you post it to the list would save me having to ask
>>>>         you.
>>>>
>>>>         That is the same also for URLs you post. Please add a
>>>>         sentence so that people reading it
>>>>         in the archives can later know what you thought you were
>>>>         talking about when you
>>>>         posted something.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Opps, I missed out the hyphen
>>>>
>>>>     s/my profile/my-profile/
>>>>
>>>>     I'm trying to log in to Andrei's server by clicking the WebID
>>>>     login.
>>>
>>>     Good was that so difficult to write out?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Does that help?
>>>
>>>     Not completely. This is a public mailing list. Some people may
>>>     not know who Andrei is, or
>>>     what my-profile is. It can't harm to add a URL can it?
>>>     http://my-profile.eu <http://my-profile.eu/>
>>>
>>>     Try to think of what you would make of an e-mail like this if it
>>>     were the first time you came to
>>>     the list. Then add enough info to make the  context explicit so
>>>     that new people can understand
>>>     what is going on.
>>>
>>>     Especially as this is not a bug report mailing list.
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you implying that bugs should be reported elsewhere or that, 
>>> with enough context, it's fine to report bugs on this mailing? (I 
>>> personally don't mind as long as it's stated explicitly at the 
>>> beginning of the email or even better: in the title).
>>
>> yes.
>>
>> As we don't have a test suite for automatically testing endpoints 
>> yet, its fine to post here as long as one is explicit
>> about what is problematic for which service. Though of course it 
>> would be better to contact the service owner
>> directly. Andrei's https://my-profile/ is currently our reference 
>> implementation I think, so I'd even say its ok
>> to let the community know if there is a problem.
>
> Sorry I meant to write https://my-profile.eu/
>
> There is another reason for sending such posts to this mailing list: 
> and that would be that if there is no response from service owners, or 
> if software that is no longer maintained we should remove it from the 
> list of functioning software. ( We could have a list of older software! )
>
>
>
>>
>> All this indicates that we need to build robots to automatically test 
>> our endpoints. This will require services to tell them
>> what type of errors they have made are, and who to contact. I'll try 
>> to work on that before TPAC again, and we can discuss
>> it there. I hope we can get a room there somehow.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Steph.
>>
>> Social Web Architect
>> http://bblfish.net/
>>
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>

Received on Monday, 17 September 2012 16:29:19 UTC