Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora Core 5

[Jim Cornette]

Ben Liblit wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Nothing is ever sent until you confirm that you want to participate, 
>> which is a one-time thing that looks a lot like this: 
>> <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/learn-more/privacy/first-time.png>.
>>
>> Once you've confirmed that you want to participate, reports are sent 
>> automatically after all runs, whether they crash or not.
> 
> Oops, I should also point out that you can *stop* participating any time 
> you want.  You can stop permanently by going back to official Fedora 
> packages, of course.  You can also temporarily suspend reporting at any 
> time, either for individual applications or for everything all at once.
> 
> The top of <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/learn-more/privacy/> ("Your 
> Computer, Your Choice") has some more information and a few screen shots 
> showing how you can check what CBI is doing and turn things on or off on 
> the fly.
> 
> We prefer that you leave CBI on all the time, and just continue to use 
> your machine normally.  But ultimately it is *your* machine, so we keep 
> you in charge.
> 


Is this similar to what the Fedora Automated Test Suite referred to in 
the below link aims to accomplish?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraTesting

Having automated programs to diagnose problems does sound like it will 
aid in getting more information back to improve Linux program versions.

Jim

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