Re: Allowing anonymous users to submit crashers via bug-buddy: Yes/No?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 09 février 2006 à 13:19 +0100, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> The XML-RPC post by fer showed a Bug-Buddy which didn't ask for any
> information (steps to reproduce or an email address). See
> http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/new-bugbuddy.html
> 
> I'm against allowing anonymous users to submit crasher bugs. Mainly
> because I fear this will cause a huge increase in workload, without
> providing clear benefits (you might have one or two good bugs, but do
> not believe it is worth it). My opinion is that bugs will always be
> filed, so we will always get this information from a normal user.
> 
> Fer + Elijah, possible Luis disagree.
> 
> As I believe allowing anonymous Bug-Buddy crasher bugs caused a huge
> increase in workload for the Bugsquad, I want the opinion of the
> Bugsquad first (after that probably maintainers of the big products).

My 0.02€: a lot of anonymous crasher bugs do not contain enough
informations (ie, incomplete stack trace). This would be an argument
against anonymous submissions. However, I don't like the idea of denying
people the right to be anonymous :-)

Maybe we could use a script to analyze the stack trace and, if it looks
useful (eg, contain function names, with corresponding files) accept it.
Or if it doesn't look useful (lots of "??"), ask the submitter to
provide an e-mail address. This should not be mandatory, though.

Also, is it possible to tell bug-buddy that I have an account and that
it should use it?

Vincent

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