Re: Automatic Kernel Bug Report

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jul 10 2006 - 13:30:49 EST


Hi!

> >> Sometimes the user may be just somebody that just started using linux,
> >> or is in an industry that has nothing related to computers. He doesn't
> >> even know that syslog exists, and even if he did, he could not even
> >> care about it.
> >
> >This user will do whatever his distro tells him to do, which is almost
> >certainly something *other* than what a kernel.org kernel should do.
> >If he's running Ubuntu, it should do whatever Ubuntu does. If he's
> >on Fedora Core, it should poke the RedHat bugzilla, and so on.
> >
> >If he's running a kernel.org kernel, it's probably safe to assume *some*
> >level of clue
> >
>
> This was actually just an example circunstance of why somebody would
> not report a bug. Dozens of other circunstances may be given, and it
> just illustrates why would be good to have those bug reports without
> user interaction. Of course I can go to bugzilla and fill a report
> upon a bug, but I wouldn't care to have bug reports being sent from my
> servers automatically, if it's an option. This would ensure that even
> bug report from non-caring users are, well, reported.

Well, unless we have some volunteer to go through the bugreports and
sort them/kill the invalid ones/etc... this is going to do more harm
than good.
Pavel
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