Opaque error reporting

[purpleidea]

I've been playing with staticman and built the following site:

https://purpleidea.com/blog/hello-world/

Code is here: https://github.com/purpleidea/purpleidea.com/

When I submit the form I get a "success" message, but no PR is delivered. Everything else is setup properly AFAICT.

Is there a way to access logs? Should we add an API call to show some logs?

Thanks, James

[purpleidea]

Here are a few common errors I found which are hard to figure out since there are no logs available:

• If the path (directory) doesn't exist in the destination repo at the configured spot, you'll get a GITHUB_WRITING_FILE error.

• If the configured path either starts or end with a / (slash) you'll get a GITHUB_WRITING_FILE error.

• If you try to expand a placeholder that doesn't exist, you'll get an error.

• If you don't specify the transform dictionary, it will default to email md5 AIUI. You need to specify email: "" (empty string) if you want it to leave the emails alone.

HTH to someone else who finds this. It would be really awesome if you could get better error output.