ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

Jiri Moskovcak jmoskovc at redhat.com
Fri Dec 6 13:12:59 UTC 2013


On 12/06/2013 02:08 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>
> On 12/06/2013 01:05 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> On 12/06/2013 01:59 PM, Václav Pavlín wrote:
>>> I think abrt serves as good source of info in case of unexpected
>>> crashes, which is quite important to have stable
>>> system. So although being puzzled is not very nice, being
>>> disappointed by crashing applications is much worse from my
>>> point of view.
>
> Again reports are one thing fixing is another...
>
>>>
>>> So try to look at it from broader perspective - I see more benefits
>>> in having abrt installed.
>>
>> While this is true - my mother have no clue what Bugzilla means, and
>> even what is bug report - well in her term it is phone call to me
>> "Son, some weird box pop up, what should I do? I already hit Esc and
>> Enter and it still sit there".
>>
>> This is disadvantage of being popular. Not every user is power user.
>>
>
> As well as those user not being able to "sanitize" their log(s) so they
> might accidentally be submitting sensitive information...
>
> JBG

ABRT can be configured to not bother users with reporting to bugzilla 
and only send a stripped information about the crash without any 
sensitive information [1]. So no need for users to sanitize their logs.


--Jirka

[1] https://github.com/abrt/faf/wiki/uReport


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