Re: Apport crash reports for Nautilus

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Sense,

Op zondag 07-02-2010 om 12:28 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Sense
Hofstede:
> A reasonable part of the bugs reported with Ubuntu's bug reporter
> 'Apport' -- which is also used to fill OpenSuSE's crash database --
> are crashes. These kind of reports contain a Stacktrace,
> ThreadStacktrace, the .xsession-errors file and some more
> information[1]. Often those crashes are hard to reproduce, but the
> stacktraces could still provide useful information.
> 
> Since I triage mostly Nautilus bugs, on Launchpad, I would like to ask
> you how you think about such reports. Is a mere stacktrace enough when
> forwarding the bug upstream? Or do you want more information? I
> wouldn't want to open dozens of unusable bugs on GNOME Bugzilla, but I
> also wouldn't want to leave crash bugs go by unnoticed.

You will find information on what the Gnome bugsquad expects from you
on http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad . 

In general, only stack traces containing debug symbols are really
useful.

Cc'ing the bugsquad list as that is a better place to ask such questions
as these.

regards,

-- 
Reinout van Schouwen