The Phantom Update

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 12/12/2009 03:14 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> writes:
>> If they are following advice, then they should follow my advice as
>> written in detail at
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests
> 
> I'm not usually a fan of adding programs and hand-holding wrappers where
> a simple web page would, but in the case of bug reporting, maybe a bit
> of programatic hand-holding would prevent duplicate bugs.  
> 
> Another advantage might be that doing the bug report composition on the
> client-side instead of server-side (like bugzilla) is that the OS
> version, rpm version, lshw and/or lspci, Xorg.log would be avaible and
> could be appended automatically.  Maybe this could be a summer-of-code
> idea?

For crashes, Abrt is handling this by default in Fedora 12.
Alternatively, there is https://fedorahosted.org/boog/ which attempts to
do some of this.

Rahul