Handling crash reports

[David Farning]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:24 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> David Farning [2007-01-25 16:29 -0600]:
> > 1.  Add a top level boolean that categorizes issue reports as crashes.
> > This will greatly aid the sorting of bugs for different types of
> > triagers.
> 
> Latest apport does that now: it generates a sensible default bug title
> (like '[apport] firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in function_name()'), so
> that for one bug titles are more useful to triagers, and Malone's
> duplicate detection/proposing system can pick it up easily, so that we
> can avoid getting too many duplicates filed.
> 
> Feisty's apport does this now. :)

> I totally agree, and my hope is that we can eventually integrate it
> into Launchpad. I would be happy to implement this as a separate
> service initially; the main issue is to get a box in the DC with
> working virtualization.
> 
> Pitti
> 
Looks like you are make excellent progress with apport.  I'll set up a
box tomorrow to test this new apport goodness.

Where would be the best place to discuss the future of apport?  I'm
rather keen on getting it working;)

Thanks
David
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