Disabling whoopsie by default in the 12.04.1 release

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Matthew Paul Thomas wrote on 06/08/12 12:04:
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> An average of 1.4 crashes/user/calendar-day is far too high. 
> Suppressing the error messages won't fix that. Only fixing the 
> errors will.
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Correction: Steve Langasek's comment that "the value on this graph
will always be >= 1" has helped us realize that we're doing the
calculation wrong. We're dividing the number of error reports by the
number of machines reporting that day. What we actually want is to
divide by the *total* number of machines from which their users would
typically send error reports.

We can't know that exactly, but we can get much closer by using the
number of machines that have sent any error reports in the past 90
days. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/1033913> That won't require any
client-side changes.

It's likely that will result in the average going below 1.0. So the
"ten error prompts per week" is almost certainly an overstatement.

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