719711 - Thanks page discussion

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Input Graveyard :: Submission, defect)

Description

[Nigel Babu [:nigelb]]

Currently, the user fills a form on input, input sends an xmlrpc call to bugzilla, and the user gets and email.  The email contains a link to bugzilla, which when clicked, shows the thanks page and links to the bug.

Alternatively, the user could click on a link to bugzilla, bugzilla could redirect to a thanks page hosted on input, with bugzilla sending the bug or error via GET.

This bug for discussion on which of these avenues to go with.

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

I'm happy enough with using the general thanks page. It's generic enough that we don't have to re-invent a new page just for it. Though, if anyone's got any creative thoughts on what to do here, I'm game!

Comment 2

[Nigel Babu [:nigelb]]

The first thank page will of course be reused.  We're talking about the page after the bug gets filed.  This will need to be a new page, since we'll need to show the user the bug number of the bug that was just filed.

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

the further clarify; this is about switching the 3 html pages listed in bug 680094 comment 0 from being hosted on bmo to being hosted on input:

  1. "bug created, and you now have a bmo account"
     * It's a good idea to include a link to the "forgot password" as a
       mechanism for the user to set their password 
  2. "bug created with your existing bmo account"
  3. "something went wrong, here's the error"

i can redirect to the url you provide either a successful result:

  input.m.o/whatever.cgi?bug_id=NNNN&is_new_user=1

where bug_is is the id of the bug created, and is_new_user will be 0 or 1

or, if it failed you'll get the error message

  input.m.o/whatever.cgi?error=something%20failed%2c%20run

Comment 4

[[:Cww]]

Not sure what the status of tell us more is... we now collect email addresses and can follow up in input. Closing as bitrotted, re-open if we want to talk about this going forward.