On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:35 PM, David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> wrote: > At Cauldron on the Sunday morning there was a Release Management BoF > session, replacing the specRTL talk (does anyone know what happened to > the latter?) > > One of the topics was bug triage, and how many bug reports lacked basic > metadata on e.g. host/build/target, reproducer etc. > > I suggested we could automate gathering this, and rashly promised to > write a prototype in Python. So here it is... > > The attached script demonstrates a way to generate a URL that, when > followed, takes the user to the GCC Bugzilla "Enter Bug" page, with all > pertinent fields prepopulated with meaningful data. (run the script, > and follow the URL; this uses the same server-side URLs as the "Remember > values as bookmarkable template" BZ button). > > The idea is that the "gcc" driver program could gain a --report-bug > feature that injects -save-temps into the options, disables plugins, and > tries to reproduce a crash. It then gives you the URL to click on, > capturing the backtrace and embedding it into the form for you. > > Perhaps we could guess the "Component" based on the backtrace. > > I note that there doesn't seem to be a "trunk" entry for "Version". > > I am both proud of, and scared of, this idea: it could make it easy for > people to file higher-quality bugs. On the other hand, that means more > bugs in the tracker... (they do at least need to be logged in). > > Note that this points users at the GCC bug tracker. Presumably > downstream packagers of GCC may want to customize such a feature to > point at their bug trackers (e.g. at Red Hat we have our own bugzilla > instance, with a different set of custom fields).
Heh... I was hoping this would be a patch to the driver directly (thus not a python script). Note that I don't care too much about the reproducing/-save-temps and backtrace for the driver option. Of course in case of an ICE producing a proper bug-url with the backtrace info included would even be better. Richard. > Thoughts? > Dave
