Top Crashers

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:35:54PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:12:18PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> > Now we have abrt making it easier for lazy people to submit crash 
> > reports, do we have enough information for a 'Top Crashers' list? It 
> > would be good to highlight these centrally to provide an incentive to 
> > give them the attention they deserve.
> > 
> > My specific motivation for this is:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532307
> > 
> > This crashes daily for me and, from the evidence of the BZ traffic, a 
> > whole lot of other people too. It has also been ignored for 2 months 
> > now. Highlighting and fixing this kind of high-impact bug would be a 
> > great way to improve the quality of Fedora.
> 
> You have essentially just suggested kerneloops.org, but for userspace
> apps. It would be very nice to have such a beast!  Doing statistical
> analysis by extracting the ABRT reports from BZ would just be horrible.

Is the existing CBI project helpful in this case?

http://lwn.net/Articles/362777/

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