Re: Helper to collect more info in bug-buddy

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

This is a great idea - Evolution would benefit most from this.  Lately,
I have noticed myself frequently asking bug reporters to fetch Log
files/messages to supplement the stack traces that are filed on bugzilla
and it will be a great help if we could have these information collected
by the program automatically and included with bug buddy traces.

Harish



On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 10:06 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently added code to Nautilus to collect logging information.  This
> log is dumped to a file in the user's home directory when Nautilus
> crashes [1].
> 
> However, it is cumbersome to tell users, "please send that file as well
> as the bug-buddy report when you get a crash".  It would be good if
> bug-buddy would pick up that file and append it to its own debug log.
> 
> Alex Larsson suggested that our .desktop files could specify a
> per-module script that would collect more info for bug-buddy.  For
> Nautilus, this would be something like
> 
> 	X-bug-buddy-collect-script = nautilus-debug-log-helper.sh
> 
> And that script, nautilus-debug-log-helper.sh would simply contain
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	cat ~/nautilus-debug-log.txt
> 
> since ~/nautilus-debug-log.txt is where Nautilus dumps its own debug
> log.
> 
> The idea is that programs that collect their own debugging data should
> be able to tell bug-buddy show to pick up that data for its own logs.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> [1]
> http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-10.html#nautilus-logging
> 
>   Federico
> 
> 
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