[Adium-devl] Smart Crash Reports

[David Smith]

	As I understand it, the consensus is that improving the existing one  
to where we need it is possible. It'll just require some work.

													David

On Feb 10, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> So what's the consensus on Smart Crash Reports?  Will it be  
> possible, Jeff, to add statistics and smarter searching to the SCR  
> web interface?  If not, can our interface end up with a working  
> search mechanism?
>
> Either way, I think we should switch to SCR -- if we're using our  
> own interface, we can have it post to there instead of emailing  
> us.  The advantages are reduced binary footprint (not a lot of  
> difference, actually: 140 kb download, 300 kb on disk),  
> standardized interface with other OS X apps, and the knowledge that  
> by collecting crash reports we aren't reducing the prevalence of  
> crashes which matter to us (webkit, anybody?) in Apple's database.   
> Disadvantage is the link between user and crash reports -- but a  
> user who contacts us can of course attach a crash log or could  
> specify their computer's name which is included in the crash  
> report.  Alternately, we can specify in the default text a message  
> such as "Include your email address if you would like us to be able  
> to contact you about this crash report."
>
> -Evan
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