Thanks for putting in the work to get this integrated, Mark! Having automated crash dumps will be invaluable to improving KiCad stability.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 8:32 PM Mark Roszko <mark.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > We are planning to introduce the use of the Sentry platform into KiCad. > Sentry https://sentry.io/ is open source platform to capture application > events, crash dumps, and other random analytics. > Both their hosted platform (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry) is open > source and the integrated SDK to handle crash handling in C++ is also open > source on github under MIT license > (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native) > Sentry has given KiCad a sponsored account to use their SaaS platform as the > KiCad team does not have the manpower to maintain a self-hosted instance. > > The plan going forward is: > - The primary use in KiCad will be to capture crash reports, but in the > future it could also let us gather things like performance metrics of > algorithms across the wider user base. > - The implementation will be and will remain entirely opt-in with a one time > prompt on startup, and the ability to turn it off in preferences. This is to > maintain privacy regulation compliance and just good manners. > - No PII is captured, we have no need or desire for it. Only a random GUID > generated for your install is used to connect crash reports. This GUID can be > reset at any time by the user. > - To aid in avoiding PII capture, all sentry reports go to a "sentry-relay" > server run on KiCad owned infrastructure, > this relay serves as a proxy to communicate to the main sentry.io platform, > this aids in hiding originating IP addresses but we have also turned off the > storage of IP addresses in sentry > - Additionally, the cmake variable KICAD_USE_SENTRY is being added where a > value of false will disable the inclusion of the sentry sdk entirely. The > current default will be off as only Windows support is tested. > - Sentry will only store at most 1 raw crash dump (though we can turn it off > entirely) for analysis. Sentry will parse out only the relevant crash details > such as call stack, and stack frame and discard the rest of the crash dump. > - This will be deployed for Windows nightly builds first > - Data in sentry is retained for at max 90 days before it is deleted > automatically. > > > This solves a many years long desire of the KiCad team to capture crash dumps > without user involvement and sentry offers us a very easy solution to do it > and help make KiCad better for everyone. > > -- > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
