Re: [dev] Additional toughts about crash reporting, WAS: Re: [dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Caolan McNamara
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:34 +0200, Bernd Eilers wrote: > Caolan McNamara wrote: > > Well I'd foresee that it would be up to each distro to look at their own > > stacktraces so I don't see that occurring, but I don't have a feel for > > the scale of how many reports might be in question. > > Yeah

Re: [dev] Additional toughts about crash reporting, WAS: Re: [dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eilers
Caolan McNamara wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:23 +0200, Bernd Eilers wrote: Caolan McNamara wrote: Hi Caolan, ReHi, As far as I have heard there are distributions which currently do not release from MasterWorkspaces or ChildWorkspaces but do in fact use some kind of more or less compl

Re: [dev] Additional toughts about crash reporting, WAS: Re: [dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Caolan McNamara
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:23 +0200, Bernd Eilers wrote: > Caolan McNamara wrote: > > Hi Caolan, > > As far as I have heard there are distributions which currently do not > release from MasterWorkspaces or ChildWorkspaces but do in fact use some > kind of more or less complex system to release so

Re: [dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eilers
ReHi, Caolan McNamara wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:43 +0200, Bernd Eilers wrote: Caolan McNamara wrote: [... snip ...] Certainly there may be issues of scalability and it may be impractical. I was thinking of whipping something Red Hat specific together and giving it a whirl during

[dev] Additional toughts about crash reporting, WAS: Re: [dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eilers
Caolan McNamara wrote: Hi Caolan, [... snip ...] What I'm thinking about aiming at is a shared cross-distro crash repository where we can auto submit the distro OOo crashes, and the distros can plug in their various stack mappers, with quick and dirty gnomebugzilla-alike tooling to merge the d

Re: [dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Caolan McNamara
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:43 +0200, Bernd Eilers wrote: > Caolan McNamara wrote: > > So when OOo crashes, what are the strategies that distros employ here if > > any ? > > > > Sun has a SOAP receiving service for crash reports, I'm aware of the tooling there, but this is somewhat orthogonal as t

Re: [dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eilers
Caolan McNamara wrote: So when OOo crashes, what are the strategies that distros employ here if any ? Sun has a SOAP receiving service for crash reports, a database to store crashreports, a daemon service which tries to find similiar stacktrace based on the information send in the XML file w

[dev] crash reporter, what are the various distro's strategies ?

2007-05-18 Thread Caolan McNamara
So when OOo crashes, what are the strategies that distros employ here if any ? For RH we don't build the crashreporter (as it's basically unusable info for Sun), but we do configure to enable using it, and replace it in the install set with a simple replacement that tests for the set of common pro