Hi Mark, Should I enable yet this on ubuntu nightly build (PPA) ?
Regards, Le mercredi 30 mars 2022 à 20:31 -0400, Mark Roszko a écrit : > Hey folks, > > We are planning to introduce the use of the Sentry platform into > KiCad. > Sentry https://sentry.io/ is open source platform to capture > application events, crash dumps, and other random analytics. > Both their hosted platform (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry) is > open source and the integrated SDK to handle crash handling in C++ is > also open source on github under MIT license ( > https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native) > Sentry has given KiCad a sponsored account to use their SaaS platform > as the KiCad team does not have the manpower to maintain a self- > hosted instance. > > The plan going forward is: > - The primary use in KiCad will be to capture crash reports, but in > the future it could also let us gather things like performance > metrics of algorithms across the wider user base. > - The implementation will be and will remain entirely opt-in with a > one time prompt on startup, and the ability to turn it off in > preferences. This is to maintain privacy regulation compliance and > just good manners. > - No PII is captured, we have no need or desire for it. Only a random > GUID generated for your install is used to connect crash reports. > This GUID can be reset at any time by the user. > - To aid in avoiding PII capture, all sentry reports go to a "sentry- > relay" server run on KiCad owned infrastructure, > this relay serves as a proxy to communicate to the main sentry.io > platform, this aids in hiding originating IP addresses but we have > also turned off the storage of IP addresses in sentry > - Additionally, the cmake variable KICAD_USE_SENTRY is being added > where a value of false will disable the inclusion of the sentry sdk > entirely. The current default will be off as only Windows support is > tested. > - Sentry will only store at most 1 raw crash dump (though we can turn > it off entirely) for analysis. Sentry will parse out only the > relevant crash details such as call stack, and stack frame and > discard the rest of the crash dump. > - This will be deployed for Windows nightly builds first > - Data in sentry is retained for at max 90 days before it is deleted > automatically. > > > This solves a many years long desire of the KiCad team to capture > crash dumps without user involvement and sentry offers us a very easy > solution to do it and help make KiCad better for everyone. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp