Re: Bugzilla: Reducing bugspam and finding patches

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

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> > 3. Already fixed (duplicate)
> >   Some crashers have been fixed a long time ago, but they still receive
> >   daily bugreports. These bugreports can now be rejected automatically.
> >   For this the first 5 functions of the stacktrace are used, coupled
> >   with the GNOME version (to prevent regressions being rejected).
> >    
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> 	This one worries me a little - e.g. look at one of the panel crashers:
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> 150809 /GNOME2\.8\./ gtk_widget_set_sensitive g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__POINTER g_closure_invoke g_signal_has_handler_pending g_signal_emit_valist gnome-panel

> ...
> Cheers,
> Mark.
I suspect this heuristic would fail for a number of at-spi/accessibility 
bugs as well, since the stack frames (especially in non-debug builds) 
can look the same for quite different root causes, if things go haywire 
in a CORBA call.

It's a great idea, and I am all for it, but I agree with Mark that 5 
functions of a stack trace are not conclusive.

Bill