Automatic crash reports in the final release

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Soren Hansen [2007-03-30 14:06 +0200]:
> 1) File bug manually

This is the point of that entire discussion---community people are
able to do this and hopefully will, but Joe User won't, which is
exactly what we want to try to achieve with this discussion: get
fewer, but high-quality bug reports. Apport makes it trivially easy to
create dead bugs, just as the soon-to-be-disabled 'Report a problem'
entry in the System menu.

> > (2) Keep apport itself enabled and have it stuff the dumps into
> >     /var/crash
> I like this much better. Two things, though: Maybe a cron.weekly job to
> remove old crash reports lying around so that we don't fill up people's
> hard drives with crash reports they're never going to use

This already exists since apport day 1. Seen ones are cleaned up
daily, unseen ones after 7 days.

> Also, if it's not already there (don't remember), apport should show the
> time at which the crash happened so that the user can recognize the
> particular crash when running apport after the fact.

This has also always been recorded in the dumps.

Martin
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