Cooperative Bug Isolation project on Fedora Core 1

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at weiss.name
Wed May 5 12:04:45 UTC 2004


From: "Ben Liblit" <liblit at cs.berkeley.edu>
> The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project is a joint effort by UC Berkeley
> and Stanford to bring debugging into the Internet age.  Instrumented
> applications send feedback to our analysis center, where we use
> statistical debugging techniques to learn what goes wrong when the
> software crashes.
<snip>
> What we need most of all are more runs from real users like you!  Even
> if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make
> things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting
> packages.  Read more, download some packages, and join in!
>
> project info: <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~liblit/sampler/>
> downloads:    <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~liblit/sampler/downloads/>

Neat idea, so long as you don't pull a M$ and start selling info that you
get from your special packages.

Too bad you don't have a yum/apt repository. :)

Ben





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