Re: Helper to collect more info in bug-buddy

[Kevin Kubasik <kevin kubasik net>]

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Beagle would also benefit greatly from this, as a mono program, we get
little from a bug-buddy stack-trace, but our own logs are very verbose
about crashes, and we have to regularly ask for clarification and logs.

Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik

Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
> 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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