On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Prior art in Linux? Aside from Breakpad, do any other distros or > FOSS projects have crash reporting systems like this?
There is LP's OOPS system, there is a google project for cross platform crashdump capturing, a django project called 'sentry' for web server error analysis (that has a cassandra backend I'm told) ... I suspect a plethora of small scale automated-gathering tools out there, but the only massive scale end-to-end one I know of is breakpad. > 2. I notice the Windows crash reporter includes buttons to check for > existing solutions. Is that something we'd like to consider as a > requirement for this? Yes, but I think that should be done in future iterations - theres plenty of meat around just handling: - file anonymously - without uploading too much - or too little - handling offline situations - data storage and backend scaling - initial analysis facilities - dealing with privacy - allowing users to follow up on their report [if desired - note that Microsoft's tool *used* to do this, now they don't] > 3. Privacy issues should probably be elaborated on further. > > 4. How do us developers want to interact with the gathered data? > I.e., what should the graphs or tables look like? I suggest in a first pass we want a strong API - probably a map-reduce style in-the-cloud processing workflow, and use that to build a real web UI as well as adhoc queries and custom analysis. -Rob -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
