ABRT opt-out (was Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting)

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 12/09/2010 08:57 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:53 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>> On 12/09/2010 12:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:08 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>>> On 12/09/2010 09:59 AM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>>>>> Just a wild idea - ABRT detects the dupes even locally so we can make
>>>>> ABRT to allow reporting the bug to bz only if it happened more then once
>>>>> (or some other threshold):)
>>>>
>>>> Dont we loose hard to catch odd ball bugs if that's implemented?
>>>
>>> and bugs where an app just very obviously crashes on start. I know *I*
>>> wouldn't try it again in that case. What would be the point? I'd know it
>>> was going to crash.
>>
>> Well, I would definitely run it again after saying "WTH, did it really
>> just crash on startup?" :)
>
> if it just invisibly doesn't run, I'd try it again, but if I'm running
> it from the console and it spits out a clear fatal error and crashes,
> yeah, I'm not going to run it again. That'd be pointless.

- but sometimes the star constellation changes and somwhere some 
butterfly waves it's wings and the program might start working again ;)