RFC: Automatic trouble reporting

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:45:43AM -0800, Johan Walles wrote:

> As you say, bug-buddy covers only Gnome.  If anything non-Gnome crashes it
> won't help.  For example if the X server crashes, bug-buddy won't be of
> much help, but that's something you'd probably want to know about.  And if
> any non-supported Gnome software crashes, what happens with the bug
> report?

Martin Pitt has done some work on automatic detection of program crashes in
general.  This wasn't a goal for the release, though, and feature freeze is
coming up shortly.  I suggest proposing this for the following release when
the time comes (we'll announce a kickoff meeting to discuss release goals).

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 - mdz