On Monday, August 08, 2011 01:17:52 AM Rick Spencer wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 15:46 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > <side comment> I think we are doing it wrong: we should collect > > > crashes on all supported releases. </side comment> > > > > I agree. As designed, apport files a new bug report for each crash, > > which can quickly lead to excessive numbers of dupe bug reports (there > > are ways of making apport auto-dupe, but this takes effort to set up and > > isn't always 100% reliable). This can quickly become unmanageable > > especially for packages that lack someone to keep an eye on the bug > > reports. > > > > In any case, these types of reports post-release are most useful in > > aggregate rather than as individual bug reports. If they were filed in > > some ultra simple crash database (with no signup required of the user) > > we could get most of the value without incurring a lot of extra bug > > labor. > > Has this very thing not been proposed? We should discuss doing this for > 12.04.
It's been proposed off and on for years. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
