Hello everybody,
for those of you who were not at ESUG, I present ShoreLine Reporter.
ShoreLine Reporter is a Pharo plugin to collect stack traces from
exceptions and send them to a central repository.
You can give feedback to the community by breaking things: how cool is that?
* Why?
We are collecting stack traces for research purposes and to identify the
Pharo components that can be improved or optimized.
We are also working on a web platform where users can access the
submitted data and use them during the debugging process. More on that soon!
* How?
You can install ShoreLine Reporter by visiting the project page on
SmalltalkHub:
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~dalsat/ShoreLine-Reporter/
Installing ShoreLine Reporter requires only a couple of seconds, and you
can configure it with the level of feedback that you prefer. On the
SmalltalkHub page you can find a script to automatically install
ShoreLine Reporter with every new Pharo image. Just drop it in your
Pharo preferences directory and forget about it.
Once ShoreLine Report is installed, you can decide to configure if you
want to be prompted to submit a stack trace, or to automatically submit
each exception without any bother.
* What?
We try to collect as few data as possible: the execution stacktrace, the
name of the author and the Pharo build. We do *not* any collect personal
data, such as passwords or repositories. The data is currently stored on
our server, at the University of Lugano.
* Compatibility
ShoreLine Reporter is developed for the Pharo debugger. We are improving
ShoreLine Reporter to work with GTInspector, we will push an update in
the following days.
For any problem, contact me!
Thanks, hope to see a lot of your exceptions ;-)
Tommaso Dal Sasso @ REVEAL
