Apport hooks (Re: The changing nature of bug reports)

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:15:04AM -0600, David Farning wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 08:57 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Apport currently has a very cool package.hook mechanism for the crash
> > > reporter that can be customized on a per package basis to provide
> > > information a triager/developer is likely to ask for.
> > > 
> > > I realize that I am packing feature requests on pitti...but;)  I wonder
> > > if it would be possible to implement a cli that calls package.hook so a
> > > bug reporter could easily provide the information triagers are likely to
> > > ask for.
> > 
> > I like the idea very much, though I'm not sure exactly how it should look.
> > 
> > Perhaps ideally, one would invoke apport with a package name and a bug
> > number, and it would attach all relevant information to the bug report.  I
> > think we lack the necessary APIs in Launchpad for this today, however.
> 
> Short term I was thinking of some thing like a cli such as 
> 
> apport-bugreport firefox|thunderbird|....

I think this is a great idea, but one suggestion would be to choose a
name which is extremely memorable, obvious, and easy to spell, so that
it'll become second nature for users.  Like even just 'bugreport' might
be good as the command name.  Think about explaining this command to
your mother over the phone - the less you have to spell out, the easier
it'll be for everyone's patience.  ;-)

Bryce