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

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Bryce Harrington [2007-02-13 12:34 -0800]:
> > > 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.  ;-)

BTW, the current name for it is 'ubuntu-bug'. Having Ubuntu in the
name is needed because it currently files bugs against Ubuntu in
Malone (not other distributions).

Martin


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