[Mageia-sysadm] CatDap overloaded?

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Fri Jun 3 18:07:09 CEST 2011


Le mercredi 1 juin 2011 15:19:52, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le mercredi 01 juin 2011 à 14:58 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> > Le mercredi 1 juin 2011 11:34:31, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
> > > People trying to register today have complained that
> > > 
> > > identity.mageia.org does not work correctly:
> > >  - you fill in your data
> > >  - when you click on "Register" you get a message "Please come back
> > >  later"
> > > 
> > > I tested that, confirmed.
> > 
> > That default catalyst error message is really a misleading message, I
> > guess there's a way to change it to something that says clearly that
> > something is wrong ?
> 
> Likely. We just need to add a template for error 500.
> But in this case, the error message would not have been more helpful for
> the user, as there is nothing they can do for that.

The difference is a user could really "come back later" instead of signaling 
the bug right away. That's why I think this isnt' a good default message, but 
maybe catalyst's devs chose it for the exact opposite reason, thinking that 
transient errors are more frequent than real bugs.

Samuel



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