[ge-talk] Bug reporting

[Alexander G. M. Smith]

Thomas Winwood wrote on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:18:00 +0100:
> Some way of automating the check as to whether the bug is a known one is
>  a good idea - perhaps have the e-mail sent to an automated system that
> builds a list of common crashes (so it has a typical set of crash data
> together with how many times that crash has been reported as a
> percentage of total responses) which the developer can browse through
> and see which are the major recurring bugs people experience. There'll
> probably be a long tail of rubbish (just random unreproducable crashes
> that people have mistakenly sent in) though... perhaps filter it so it
> displays only those that have been reported a minimum number of times.

Linux (or at least some tools) has something too.  A friend mentioned using
some new software under Linux (the Code::Blocks IDE http://www.codeblocks.org/)
and suffered a crash.  He was prompted to send in an automatic bug report with
attached files (some sort of XML), and it even had a spot to add some user comments.

- Alex