ABRT frustrating for users and developers

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:49:05 -0800, Adam wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 16:01 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> >       * abrt is frustrating for users: Today I received my first "No
> >         need for a reply...I will stop submitting tickets."
> > 
> > Can somebody confirm my observations?
> 
> Not really, no. Anything new will have _some_ negative effects. That
> doesn't make it bad in res totam.

Dunno why this thread turns so negative. In my older thread I've pointed
out that I do appreciate ABRT and the bug reports (many of which would
have never been reported without ABRT), and I believe Christoph shares
that view. But still there is room for improvement, especially after
things have turnt worse temporarily. So, it's constructive criticism
afterall. Just that it hasnn't been obvious why ABRT started to create a
growing number of close-to-useless backtraces. Package updates to ABRT
should receive a lot of testing in order to avoid rushed "stable" releases
that result in less useful bz tickets. And if arbitrary 3rd party repos
can lead to denial-of-service in ABRT, that's also something to consider
in future updates.