Flyspray and Its Pithy Error Messages

Posted on September 26, 2006
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At work we use Flyspray for our bug tracking and it works quite well. Looks nice too.

However the error messages leave something to be desired, indicating that Flyspray’s internal error handling process leaves something to be desired:

Flyspray Error

In fact the cause of this was an error with the Flyspray code not properly constructing an automatically-generated URL.

As a general rule of thumb a sufficiently robust web app should be able to distinguish between:

a) An invalid access attempt (which is not an error state, it is a use case)

b) An attempt to execute a function the application does not support (which is an error state)

c) An attempt to excute an illegal SQL statement against the database (which again is not an error state).

Hopefully this will be rectified in future versions.

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