Option to upload and report image file which can't open correctly.

[Stephane-D]

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[Fab14]

I love this one ! This would be a great feedback for BioFormats !

How do you imagine this ? As we cannot load an image an then we popup a window asking if the user allow the program to upload it somewhere on a bioformats server ? What would be the best protocol ? We should check if they already have a setup for this king of feedback !

[Stephane-D]

Bio Formats has a FTP available for that sort of report.
I think a popup or something similar which ask user if he what to report the problematic image could be nice :)

[Stephane-D]

Ask LOCI before if they would accept that type of automatic report (we can imagine a dedicated FTP directory for that).

[melissalinkert]

You might consider using the results of this ticket:

http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/4089

(not done yet, but something I really want to have finished). That would allow you to use something like this to report bugs in Bio-Formats:

IssueReporter reporter = new IssueReporter();
reporter.reportBug("/path/to/file", "description of problem");

[Stephane-D]

Oh very nice, thank you.
I think we can use it indeed as soon it will be ready.
The "path_to_file" will point to your FTP where we will have first uploaded the screenshot.

[melissalinkert]

Actually, the intended usage of "/path/to/file" is the path to the user's original data file (i.e. a file on the local disk), which will then be uploaded to the QA system (it could also be a screenshot of the problem, but that is less useful).

If you have it point to a path on the SFTP server, then the file effectively has to be uploaded twice: once from the user's machine to the SFTP server, and then from the SFTP server to the QA system.

[Stephane-D]

Ah yeah of course that makes sense... don't know why i though this way ;)