abrt thoughts pre-rfe q?

[Matt McCutchen]

On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 20:01 +0100, M A Young wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> 
> > Users should already be reading the existing information, because abrt
> > provides the link after it makes its changes (adding the user to CC and
> > adding a comment with the "how to reproduce" text, if it was nonempty).
> > The proposal would just be to reverse the order of the steps so that
> > users can, and hopefully will, avoid adding redundant comments.
> 
> It would also be good if this could happen before the debuginfo packages 
> are downloaded, which would mean that those with limited bandwidth could 
> contribute more easily if there was an existing bug.

That's not possible: the debuginfo packages are needed to generate the
stack trace, which is needed to find the existing bug.

-- 
Matt