Re: ABRT frustrating for users and developers

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On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 09:31 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:02 +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> 
> > Having said that the things that can be done with a mere backtrace
> are
> > limited. I would almost always need to look at the corefile too, and
> > would be frustrated if it wasn't available. Perhaps the workflow
> that
> > starts with ABRT providing a backtrace needs to be significantly
> > different to the workflow for a manually submitted bug. More
> automated
> > perhaps?
> > 
> > What if every component had a placeholder bug for undiagnosed ABRT
> > info. Keeping all of them together would help to gauge which are
> > significant and which are one-in-a-million cosmic rays flipping RAM
> > bits etc.
> 
> I think it should work more like the mozilla crash handling system.
> They
> file automatic crash reports in a completely different database which
> is
> more optimized for e.g. data mining and is less work for the
> maintainer
> on a per-bug basis. So, instead of replying and keeping track of every
> user crash manually the maintainer gets list of "top crashers it
> latest
> version", "new crashes this week", etc.

In case you're interested this is how the mozilla database looks:
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/


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