Scott Kitterman wrote: > We'd be flooded with stacks of dupes mostly to existing bugs > and no one to triage, let alone fix them.
In their current form dupes are mostly annoying, but what if the apport was redesigned so that it had a "production mode" where it only bumped a counter on the original report. Then we would be able to run queries like "which single sigsegv among all sigsegvs in all packages does users currently run into most frequently". To do this the "production mode" apport data does not have to contain core dumps with personal data, it just needs to submit a small tuple containing the parameters that we use to determine the uniqueness of a crash. An example of such a tuple could be: (HASH_OF_ELF_IMAGE, OFFSET_INTO_ELF_IMAGE_WHERE_SEGV_HAPPENED) Since Ubuntu has more bugs than developers, this type of prioritization data might be very useful. Also, on the topic of "interfering with local development"; other vendors have tried to solve this by asking "SUBMIT CRASH, DONT SUBMIT CRASH or DEBUG" whenever developer tools are installed. And SUBMIT or DONT SUBMIT whenever devs tools are not installed. Martin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss