[Ubuntu Wiki] Update of "Bugs/Tags" by vish

[Brian Murray]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:55:07PM +0530, Vish wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 12:06 -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 05:28:51PM -0000, Ubuntu Wiki  wrote:
> > > Dear Wiki user,
> > > 
> > > You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Ubuntu Wiki" for change notification.
> > > 
> > > The following page has been changed by vish:
> > > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags?action=diff&rev1=177&rev2=178
> > > 
> > > The comment on the change is:
> > > Cheese apport tags , for more info see its /debian/source_cheese.py
> > > + === Cheese Specific ===
> > > + Tags Apport adds while collecting information for Cheese Webcam Booth.
> > > + ||<rowbgcolor="#FFEBBB"> '''Tag''' || '''Use case''' ||
> > > + || [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=gstreamer-error|`gstreamer-error`]] || Bug is related to bad drivers and not Cheese; ''Switch bug to related package(`linux` for missing/bad drivers)''||
> > 
> > If these are linux bugs wouldn't the better thing be updating the apport
> > package hook for cheese so that the bugs were filed about linux instead?
> > 
> > --
> > Brian Murray
> > Ubuntu Bug Master
> 
> That was precisely my idea too :-) , 
> but I could not find anyone with time to spare to write a hook which
> works like that. 
> Mitch did excellent work on the apport hook and said he might look into
> it again if he had time. (But I havent seen him around for a while.)
> 
> (A little info about this tagging)
> Such bugs were a huge problem when I was cleaning up a backlog of
> unattended Cheese bugs. A lot of the kernel driver bugs were just
> reported as "Cheese does not detect my webcam" or "Cheese displays image
> wrong" when gstreamer input would have the same problem.
> I had to ask reporters to launch the gstreamer stream either via
> terminal or via the multimedia selector and then triage accordingly.
> 
> What I do with such bugs is set them to "Incomplete" and ask reporters
> to apport-collect for the Linux package.  
> Ideally this could be done by apport itself; Once apport detects it is a
> driver error, collect for linux kernel and file the bug in the kernel.
> 
> Would be awesome if someone could fix the hook to file the bug in the
> right place. 
> Any takers? :-)

If you could report a bug about cheese, tag it apport-hook and include
information about what gstreamer command to execute to determine if it
is a driver issue I will see what I can do.

--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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