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

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday, December 13, 2010 02:17:47 pm Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> 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...

Of course - it still relies on client side debuginfos and correct backtraces. 
But then it's just an easy search query in Bugzilla - see [1] (line 52) and [2] 
(line 212), looking for a few calls in report (backtrace is attached directly to 
report, not as attachement - so you can easier search for one).

[1] 
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/drkonqi/bugzillalib.cpp?revision=1195225&view=markup
[2] 
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/drkonqi/reportassistantpages_bugzilla_duplicates.cpp?revision=1195453&view=markup

> >> J.

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