[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] kernel core dump and "dying breath"

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Thu Jun 21 15:04:06 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:46:16PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:43 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:35:32 -0400
> > "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > YMMV -- my experience with ABRT is that it provides little useful
> > > information by itself and that the reported bugs rarely have reporters
> > > interested in following-up with more information.  Plus, it does a
> > > terrible job correlating new bug reports with existing bug reports.
> > > 
> > > I would vote against cluttering bugzilla.kernel.org with nearly
> > > useless automated bug reports...
> > 
> > <metoo>
> > 
> > Running Rawhide gives one plenty of opportunity to report bugs; in the
> > process, I often find the Fedora bugzilla choked with ABRT reports.  I
> > can't imagine that flood of stuff is useful to anybody, and it makes
> > life hard for people who want to try to avoid putting in duplicate
> > reports.  ABRT quality is low, and I can easily see it driving away
> > higher-quality reports from people who are actually willing to follow
> > up.
> 
> Heh, makes you wish for kerneloops again ...
> 
> Perhaps one of the things we should do is to find some sucker^Wvolunteer
> to reactivate it?
> 
+1

I thought someone wanted to reactivate it, but nothing happened.
Is the code/set of scripts still around somewhere ?

Guenter


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