On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:37:48AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > abrt used to have a free-form entry like this. What happened is users > have no idea what to type in there, so you end up with bugs containing > things like "don't know" or worse, some crazy moon language you can't > even read.
Prepend the entry with an informative question maybe: "Enter bug reproduction information here:" > Two things worth noting here, are 1) the original kerneloops also > didn't collect anything like this, and was still very useful, and > 2) for the more common issues (which let's face it, are going to be > the only things people really look at) chances are pretty high that > there's going to be someone also reporting it on lkml, or in a distro > bug tracker. Ok. > What might be useful however, is collecting things like > dmi/lspci/lsusb etc and _asking_ the user if they're ok with including > them at time of filing. We might scare off some of the more paranoid > OMGMYSECRETDATAS users, but chances are high most people won't care. > This requires the client to have a UI though, which aiui, it currently > doesn't. Anton? Definitely a step in the right direction. > We might also ask if they want to provide an email address for > feedback, but that leads to a bunch of questions about how we expose > that to developers without exposing it to spambots. Right. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
