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#372
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
How do you find it troublesome? Where are you starting from? What would make it easier (yes, direct integration with HAM would be wonderful; but that's not feasible - what about a separate third party app? How could the web interface be improved?)
Improve the URL "interface".

I'd love some redirection magic, like Debian has. For example:

http://packages.maemo.org/feedingit

(should go to http://maemo.org/packages/view/feedingit/)

http://packages.maemo.org/player

(should go to the search results page for "player" if no package with that *exact* name is found: http://maemo.org/packages/search/?or...;value]=player)

I'd love to have the same for bugs.m.o. When someone says "maemo bug 1337", i want to simply type this:

http://bugs.maemo.org/1337

and be redirected to the correct page without having to remember the URL (that request has already been filed as bug 7107 by the way, and I'm not linking it here on purpose just to demonstrate how cumbersome it is to navigate to a bug page without that shortcut).

An alphanumeric string request on bugs.maemo.org should go to the search page for this string, e.g.:

http://bugs.maemo.org/gpodder

goes to: https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=gpodder


All these features can be accomplished with some rewrite rule magic and would be very helpful in my opinion.