Re: open office stack traces

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 5/9/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> There are about 670 bug reports with 'soffice.bin' in the comment:

<snip>

> I have no idea what percentage of these are useful, unfortunately; I'd
> love feedback from those who have read them and marked them NOTGNOME
> if they've seen any patterns.

Once I see "soffice.bin" as the crashing program, I just paste the
NOTGNOME stock response and close it without reading further (and I
check the backtrace line first in all bug reports, so this doesn't
give me time to notice anything else).  I've been doing that for quite
a while, so I don't have a clue whether these bug reports have had
anything useful in them--I was figuring that the openoffice people
wouldn't be looking for them in Gnome bugzilla.  *shrug*

> * if they were useful, michael, dan, would you like us to keep them
> and/or shunt them somewhere?
> 
> * if they aren't useful, should we figure out a way to pattern match
> them and resolve them automatically?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/boogle.cgi?query=soffice.bin tends
to catch them pretty well.  They're really quite easy to manually
close out and don't take much time (at least not for me), so I'm not
sure if this would really save us much, but I don't see any harm in it
either if someone wants to spend the time to write and test the
necessary code for this.

> It seems like this might be
> useful for other patterns as well, though my brain is hosed enough
> right ATM that I can't think of any offhand.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/boogle.cgi?query=bin/evolution used
to be useful for finding NOTGNOME bugs.  ;-)  I tried some other
patterns for a while, but only those two seemed to be very common at
all.  If you want slightly less common, though, we could search for
kino, celestia, and perhaps some others.  But they just don't seem to
happen all that often.  OpenOffice is definitely the most common
notgnome case.


Cheers,
Elijah