Comment 8 for bug 30910

Browsable would be indeed be nice. BUT...

I think it is even more important to make it clear to those who are contributing their hardware
data that *not being able to retrieve it* does NOT (necessisarily) mean that their submission failed.

The wording currently returned for (aparently all) queries from
   http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/?xml=00000000000000000000000000000000
to
   http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/?xml=FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
includes the words "If you dont see any cpu or memory data below, you might have sent a broken file,".

This definitely works against the goal of "Increase[ing] participation in the Ubuntu Hardware Database".
   see: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/increase-hwdb-participation

May I suggest that the text of the "interim page" (shown below) be changed ASAP to indicate clearly that
the retreval feature currently does NOT work. It might also be good to include a link to this page:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwdb-client/+bug/30910

Also, if there is any quick fix that could positively indicate that the submitted data was recieved and
appears to be valid, that would be very helpful.

Thanks for listening,

-Greg

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This is an interim page, that does not show more then some basic data from the dataset.
If you dont see any cpu or memory data below, you might have sent a broken file,
this is most likely the case if hal is not running or has the wrong (non ubuntu hoary or breezy) version.

Couldnt detect laptop
(assuming Desktop)
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