bugzilla bugzappers?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 11/04/2010 07:15 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> I
>> guess what I'm asking is what actual harm/damage are these reports
>> causing, beyond the time it takes to look at the report and figure out
>> whether you can fix it? Why is the fact that people have experienced
>> crashes you haven't yet figured out how to fix a reason to stop
>> maintaining the software?
>>
>
> Well, since you start with "beyond the time it takes to look", I guess
> that the time it takes to look won't be enough of an argument to put
> on the table. Then I won't have anything else to say. For me that is
> all that matters. Actually that is all that I give to Fedora: time.
>
> The question is
> Am I using the time efficiently? OR
> Are the these tools  actually preventing me to be efficient during my
> available time?
As a user wanting to report a bug, abrt is both.

On one hand it's a systematic way to report bugs, on the other hand it 
forces me download debug packages and to struggle with its GUI. 
Considering the facts that downloading 100MBs of debug-packages may not 
always be applicable (E.g. when not having broadband access), that abrt 
not always manages to correctly handle debug-infos, this costs.

That said, I repeatedly ended up with "deleting" abrt notifications and 
to ignore it.


As a maintainer, abrt to me primarily means "wading through wakes of 
hardly readable emails", mostly to scan them for useful information. I 
many cases I ended up with closing BZ, because these emails did not 
contain sufficient info.

That said, as a maintainer, abrt to me only has introduced a higher 
noise/signal ratio in bugreports as before.

Ralf