Local testing of imports

[James Westby]

On Fri Dec 11 02:06:11 +0000 2009 Jonathan Lange wrote:
> > In addition, I think it would be useful if we could classify the
> > list of current failures. Does the LP OOPS system have code to
> > match tracebacks? Anyone know of anything else to do this?
> 
> I don't think so, but then I'm not really sure what you mean.
> 
> > Perhaps
> > a weekly email here with counts of classified tracebacks would
> > help us reduce the number?
> >
> 
> Hmm. I think I see. We already do something like this for other
> subsystems of Launchpad, but I think that's mostly based on the OOPS
> codes, rather than tracebacks.
> 
> I'm CCing Diogo & Ursula, who know way more about this than I do.

I took inspiration from the code in apport. Only slight modifications
were needed for something that is simple and seems to work quite well.
I put it all together in to a cron script, and I'll send an annotated
version out in a minute.

Thanks,

James