Gathering the RFEs at: https://fedorahosted.org/abrt/wiki/Wishlist On 12/09/2010 04:51 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > Here's some of my pet irritations with abrt. Feel free to add your own, > but please keep the gratuitous "me too"ing to a minimum. > > 1) The generated reports contain far too little information for library > owners. Consider this report: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658013 > > I get the EVRs for the kernel, and for the executable that happened to > be running, but not for any of the libraries in between, even though the > report very carefully tells me exactly which DSOs are loaded and where > they are in memory. > - added as "add NVRs for loaded libraries" > 2) I really dislike that "local trace generation" and "retrace server" > are discussed as though they're the only options. If nothing else, for > many non-trivial apps where abrt is potentially of the most use the core > you're uploading can easily be hundreds of megabytes; that's not really > better than downloading hundreds of megabytes. A network debuginfo > service [1] would approach this problem in a completely different way, > by letting the client download exactly as much debuginfo as it needs. > I mentioned the debuginfofs many times in ABRT flames, there was however a problem with our debug tools making it unusable, because one had to read the whole debuginfo file from the server and few other problems so that's why the retrace server idea came up. but this should fixed in the current tools so theoretically nothing prevents us from reviving it.. once this is done ABRT can easily use it... > 3) Reporting to bugzilla is a mistake. - added as: "don't report directly to bz" > 4) Reporting to bugzilla without being able to scrape the bz username > and password out of the firefox credential store is just cruel. > - added as: "share bz credential with other apps" - not sure if we can share the credentials with firefox, but we can share it with apps that store it in the gnome-keyring (which ff doesn't) > [1] - http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=littlebottom.git;a=summary > > - ajax > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
