Re: dropping bug-buddy reports for old version of gnome automatically

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Richard Hughes wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 17:13 +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote:
>  
>
> > Personally I am not able anymore to handle my bugmail anymore and even
> > useful bugreports get lost in the noise. 
> >    
>
> Tell me about it. gnome-power-manager 2.18.0 had a bug where it would
> segfault when you locked the screen if HAL was not running. 2.18.1 fixed
> the bug, but that still means I get about 5-10 duplicate bugzillas a
> day. The guys triaging this stuff have been great, but it's still more
> and more emails for me.
>  

We can auto reject specific stack traces [1] for this very reason. Get 
in touch with your local bugsquadder/bugmaster for more information.

> I'm really thinking the auto-submit thing to bugzilla should have more
> text like:
>
> 1. You do not have debuginfo packages installed, the trace may not be
> useful to the developer.
>  
This happens [2] if we manage to detect it..

Thanks,

Andrew

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/ovitters/2006/11/12/0
[2] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/ovitters/2007/01/06/0