Abrt (was Re: Most buggy packages)

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 11:43 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 07:13:27AM -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
>  
>  > I have a script that automates some of the workload of reassigning the
>  > component back to where the bug really is, but it currently requires
>  > some manual intervention:
>  > http://fedorapeople.org/cgit/dmalcolm/public_git/triage.git
>  > so inevitably I don't run it on every bug that comes in every day, and
>  > so I gradually get behind.
>  
> That looks useful. It's made of special-cases of course for your
> use-case, but I think we can come up with some similar rules for common
> things we see reported against the kernel.
I've tried to hide the bulk of the python-specificness within rules.py
(though there are some helper methods in backtrace.py for extracting
python-level backtraces from a C-level backtrace).

So if you want to hack this into a tool for use on kernel bugs, go for
it.

> Perhaps one day it might be worth gathering use-cases to make some generic
> triage tool.
> 
> 	Dave
>