hi, Am Montag, den 06.11.2006, 12:22 +0100 schrieb Christian Kirbach: > On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:41:27 +0100, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote: > We may want to have some mechanism that compares the version of the > just submitted report against the report marked as FIXED. If the software > is > newer than the version that is already filed (and known to be broken) it > has not been fixed properly. exactly. http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/AutoReject is a very first step. i want bug-buddy to be able to display information that it has received from bugzilla, it would make a lot of things easier. this is not possible currently, but i'd love to see this happen...fernando? > > * bugzilla: (pretty vague:) exact "which dbg packages do i have to > > install" information available as "bad_stacktrace" stock answer, > > depending on the distro, the distro version, and the product name of the > > bug report. > > That would yield 100 new stock answers. i know, but we have the possibility to only show them by product, as we currently do for epiphany, evince and metacity, see http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/bugzilla-newer/template/en/default/bug/edit.html.tmpl > However it looks sane to me to do create special stock messages for, > say, the 5 most blamed products (Evolution, nautilus etc). > I tend to add half a sentence asking to install particular packages, but > that really consumes loads of time. it would be a very good first step to add them for important apps with lots of crasher reports[1] like evolution, nautilus, totem, rhythmbox and epiphany; and for the distribution ubuntu (because most of the bug reports we're getting are from ubuntu). i want the "normal" bad_stacktrace stock answer plus an explicit "please install the following packages: bar-dbg, foo-dbg, riot-dbg" hint. i think this would be useful, as this would hopefully speed up information flow (read: fixing bugs) and lower the user hindrance of "clicking on the 'how to get a better stacktrace' link -> clicking on the distro-specific page -> trying to find out the package names, no idea how to, but trying to find it out". THAT is an involvement killer to me currently. i'm willing to provide a patch and to gather the required information. feedback, comments? :-) cheers, andre [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/weekly-bug-summary.cgi?days=180 -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de
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