This is a great idea and it's great you put it out there to see what happens.
A couple very small things I noticed on the web site:
1. Some error messages include the path to a file like \home\{username}\foo.rkt:
a. Some people may not want {username} in the database?
b. The unique pathname will cause what otherwise be similar errors not
to be grouped?
2. Because there are no user accounts you can do things like up- and
down-vote things indefinitely. (Not having user accounts is a huge
simplification so I understand why not yet, or maybe not ever.)
Cool idea and good implementation.
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:03 PM, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> I've now released ErrRecorder as a PLaneT package.
>
> http://li21-127.members.linode.com:8021/errrecorder
>
> (soon to be just plain www.errrecorder.org)
>
> ErrRecorder is a global database of error messages that allows users to
> suggest solutions to common errors. I've been running it on my lab machines
> locally for ~10 weeks of class, and we're up to about 13K error messages.
>
> If you're interested in installing it, you need to require it (once):
>
> (require (planet clements/errrecorder))
>
> ... and then restart DrRacket to see it take effect. For instance, try
> evaluating (/ 1 0) and then clicking on the magnifying glass icon.
>
> If you have any interest in the tool, please let me know! Suggestions also
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Finally: special thanks to Josh Robinson, the student that implemented it.
>
> John Clements
>
>
>
> Technical details:
>
> This tool installs an error-display-handler that takes the first 200 chars of
> any error message and sends it to a single server. It then displays a
> magnifying glass next to the error message. Clicking this icon opens a
> browser window that searches for the given error is the database. The
> client-side is about 300 lines of racket, with no planet-requires.
>
> The server uses the MongoDB database along with Jay McCarthy's mongodb
> package to log error messages, and to collect them into "groups" of
> similar-looking error messages. Its web interface allows users to suggest
> solutions to groups of problems. The server logs error strings and dates, but
> not IP addresses or any other identifiable user data.
>
>
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