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

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 12/13/2010 01:14 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> On Thursday, December 09, 2010 06:24:15 pm Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>> On 12/09/2010 06:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 17:36 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
>>>> so, can we call the RFE: "attach backtrace even when dupe is found" ?
>>>
>>> or, cooler, 'attach backtrace even when dupe is found *if current
>>> backtrace is better than any already attached to the bug*'.
>>
>> Adam, that would require downloading all the bt from the bugzilla to the
>> user and do some comparing on his side (this would be nice to have in
>> bz) ... but it is doable...
>
> Inspire from Dr. Konqui again ;-) They have very nice system to pre-detect
> possible dups in bz, you can compare your backtraces, set if it's a duplicate
> for sure or it's possible duplicate etc. It really works! At least for a little
> bit advanced users - it filtered 90% of reports of my crashes ;-)
>
> R.

- AFAIK it's implemented server side ... so nothing ABRT can do... we 
have tools to find possible dupes client side, but it takes few hours to 
download all the backtraces from bz to compare it...
- but yes, it would be nice to have such feature in our bz...

>
>> J.
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