On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:26:27AM -0400, John Vivirito wrote: > On 09/20/2009 10:00 AM, Sense Hofstede wrote: > > Hello, > > Recently Brian Murray asked for more Apport hooks to be added to as many > > packages as possible,[0] because of the choice for Apport as the preferred > > way to report bugs. (For more information, have a look at the QATeam spec > > [1]) > > > > The move away from the web interface ought to make our lives easier because > > now more relevant information is (going to be) attached to bug reports, > > reducing the length of the correspondence, making bug triaging and fixing > > more efficient. However, if we want to have the full benefit of the > > possibilities Apport gives us, we need to do some work. > > > > High-profile packages probably will get Apport hooks in time for the Karmic > > release, but there are many more packages that could benefit from both hooks > > and symptoms. I therefore suggest to set up an operation that makes sure we > > do give as many packages as possible a nice hook. > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > [0] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-bugsquad/2009-September/001546.html > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/IncreaseApportAdoption > > > > Kind regards, > > > At the moment there is no hook for source package > lightning-sunbird. I have never written a hook and last i > looked (a while ago) and it looked hard to do. I lost link on > how to write them. If someone can give me an idea or example > it would be great. There are other Mozilla packages that are > missing hooks, however at this time i cant remember what ones > off hand. I'm on a honeymoon number 1. not sure when im going > to get back.
I actually gave a class on this at the most recent Ubuntu Developer week and there is a log[1] of it available. It has become much easier to write one with the convenience functions available in apport. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/devweek0909/ApportPkgHooks -- Brian Murray @ubuntu.com
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