Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

[David Malcolm]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 23:32 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 03:34 +0000, Leigh Scott wrote:
> > I will take avant-window-navigator but I haven't got the time to go
> > through all the bugs reported against it.
> > 
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/avant-window-navigator?
> > 
> > Is there any chance a bug zapper could help ?
> 
> Wow. What this buglist indicates to me, mostly, is that awn is a hideous
> piece of crashy junk. I went through and marked a few that looked like
> dupes and a few needinfos, but a lot of these are crashes that aren't
> immediately obviously identical to each other - even when they're filed
> by the same person, two minutes apart...
> 
> David, do you have your Magic Pony Script which could run over these and
> decipher them a bit for us? I'm not great at reading fifty long complex
> python backtraces at 11:30pm. Any other zappers who want to help out
> weeding this AWN bug list, please do!

Youch!

One possible RFE: if ABRT detects an unhandled python exception, then
the Summary of the ABRT bug ought to contain the text from the traceback
so that e.g. bug 531053:
  "[abrt] crash detected in avant-window-navigator-0.3.2-7.fc12"
would instead be filed as
  "[abrt] Unhandled exception in avant-window-navigator-0.3.2-7.fc12:
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/awn/awn.so: wrong ELF
class: ELFCLASS32"

I've gone ahead and filed this RFE as:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562289
"Bug 562289 - RFE: more information in bug "Summary" field please!"

with some more ideas there on improvements to the bz Summary; you may
want to add other ideas there.


I do have a magic pony script; see abrt-triage.py in:
http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=dmalcolm/public_git/triage.git;a=tree

Having said that it doesn't yet work on Python exceptions, just on gdb
backtraces (which unfortunately ABRT doesn't distinguish between, you
have to open the attachment and scan it visually to determine which it
was...); this is probably fixable though right now I'm frantically
trying to finish other stuff before F13 Feature Freeze on Tuesday...

Hope this helps!

Dave