ABRT in the comps group 'standard'

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 13:18:32 UTC 2013


On 12/06/2013 01:14 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 6.12.2013 14:05, Miroslav Suchý napsal(a):
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> If I am not mistaken, ABRT can send ureports without any need to use 
> BZ. And in G3, there popups just small notification. So you exaggerate 
> a bit.

Popups on all desktop we ship?

And how about embedded/server ( abrt outside desktop installs )

And what purpose does abrt serve if there aren't people fixing the issue 
it reports on the other end...

No abrt should be opt-in not opt-out at install time.

JBG


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