On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sense Hofstede <[email protected]> wrote: > What should this operation do? The idea is to create an 'apport-hook' tag, > report bugs against all packages (that don't have a hook yet) and start > watching the bugs. Then we can write hooks and watch the tag for bugs that > have a proper one attached. The Bugsquad could do the buggy part of the > task, the MOTU and Ubuntu Developers can afterwards add the hooks to the > packages (and help writing them). > If we'd get the greatest part of our archive to have Apport hooks, it'll be > much easier for us to cope with the many bug reports that inevitably are > going to come when Karmic is released and we'd be able to learn how to deal > with those kind of bug reports before the LTS will be there.
Are you suggesting filing bugs against _all_ packages without hooks? That seems a bit over the top. > Maybe it would be a good idea to devote a HugDay to this? It would at least > be useful to create a wiki page an send an announcement to explain the > procedure of adding hooks to packages. This already exists more or less: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport/DeveloperHowTo Some thing that I think would be extremely useful is a list of _specific_ packages that hooks would be useful for. It seems as if writing a hook is pretty trivial if you know any python at all. For the most part, apport hooks simply collect logs or configuration files that might be useful in debugging. A great task for the bug squad could be to collect a list of common things that they need to ask for when debugging specific packages. I know that I personally would love to help out and write some hooks, but the packages that I'm mainly interested in don't really have a need for them so far. If there was a wiki page somewhere that mentioned that every time we get a bug report for package foo we ask the reporter for foo.log, that would be the perfect place of some one to jump in and write a hook. A massive list of packages without hooks would be much less helpful. Thanks! - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
