Fer's blog http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/2006/Feb/06/ fer, ferulo, that crazy man en fherrea@onrica.com fherrera@onirica.com http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/img/fer_reallysmall.png Fer's blog http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/2006/Feb/06/ 70 75 New bug-buddy: less is more http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/2006/Feb/06//new-bugbuddy

Thanks to the great Olav we have XML-RPC on GNOME bugzilla (testing version). So I finally committed to an experimental branch the new bug-buddy "less is more":

  • No more application/product/component selection
  • No more long descriptions
  • No more mostfreq stuff
  • No more gdb pages
  • No more save report
  • No more sendmail at all
Just catch the crash, get the info and send it. The remaining issues are:
  • Should we ask the user what was he doing during the crash? (Windows and other reporting tools are not doing it)
  • Should we ask email address to the user?
Click on the image below to see a gif-screencast of it in action:


Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:36 -0400