On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 21:02 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Maybe it is time to discuss the usefulness of ABRT to Fedora. I think > that it is a great idea for commercial products such as RHEL, but it > obviously did not fit Fedora as is. I disagree. I have seen many bugs fixed with the aid of abrt feedback. It beats the hell out of a bug report which says 'it crashed'. > From what I have seen, the maintainers are more responsive to manually > filed bugs than to ABRT filed bugs (Am I wrong?). Apparently the > current setup is driving users (such as the person in the above email) > away who are otherwise willing to report bugs. This is not good. > > What can we do to make it better? Some ideas: > > 1. > - ABRT stops reporting new bugs to Fedora. > - The user does a self evaluation: Is the bugcoding related, or > packaging related? > - If he thinks the bug is packaging related, or if he's not sure, he > manually files a bug to Fedora bugzilla. Otherwise he notifies the > developers. > - The package maintainer asks for a backtrace > - User reproduces the crash, and puts the bug number in ABRT gui. ABRT > posts the backtrace to the bug report as an attachment. > - If the bug is coding related, the package maintainer can direct the > user to the developers. This is not practical. Users are not in a position to know whether the crash is in downstream or upstream code. > 2. > There can be a checkbox in pkgdb for maintainers to turn off ABRT bug > reporting for their packages. This seems reasonable, for packagers who are not in a position to act on such reports, but then, that's not a great position for a packager to be in; for instance, I'm a packager who can't code so these reports are of fairly limited value to me directly, but they would at least give me good data to pass to the upstream coders of any package I own. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
