Re: bug-buddy integration

[Brian Nitz <Brian Nitz Sun COM>]

Luis Villa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
>   
> > Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2009, 23:28 +0100 schrieb Juan Jesús Ojeda
> > Croissier:
> >     
> > > Apport[1] is a system which is able to send a very complete crash log
> > > to a bug tracker system (not necessary the Ubuntu's one). This is
> > > working with the one from Ubuntu, but also Fedora and OpenSuse. Can be
> > > used agoinst email based interface and more.
> > >       
> > Fedora has Crash Catcher: https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/wiki
> >
> > I always wonder if this isn't all about duplicating efforts.
> >     
>
> No need to wonder; it definitely is duplicated and wasted effort. Not
> intentional, of course[1], but painful no matter how you slice it.
>
> Luis
>
> [1] Despite the slight tinge of NIH in many of the efforts.
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Do we have a list of features missing from bug buddy so maybe we could 
direct some of this energy towards making it (or some standard community 
crash logger)  meet community need and distro specific needs so we don't 
have every distro reinventing this wheel?

 My own ideas are:
   - capture more complete distro and component revision information.
   - optionally passes bug first to a distribution maintained bug 
database. (to filter distro specific bug pollution)
   - callable by user from application (window manager?) menu, captures 
user comments as well as application context info.
   - plug-ins for distro specific capture tools (strace, ktrace, truss, 
dtrace, mdb, pstack, gdb, dbx,...)