[Adium-devl] Better bug reporting statistics

[David Smith]

My vague understanding is that they still *work*, but they now warn  
the user, and won't be supported in the future. I'm not 100% certain  
on this.

On Aug 1, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:

> I've heard rumors that InputManagers break on 10.5, so we might need
> to push this ahead come October. SCR uses an InputManager, right?
> (I've not checked, and even if I had it'd probably be NDA).
> Augie
>
> On Aug 1, 2007, at 4:02 PM, David Smith wrote:
>
>> One nice easy one for someone interested (I forgot about it last
>> night when I had some time for once. dang.) would be to track number
>> of crashes since the last sparkle submission, and number of hours run
>> in the same period. That would get us MTBF numbers so we could at
>> least tell which direction stability was headed.
>>
>> Long term I think crash reporting is so valuable and general purpose
>> that we need an equivalent to Sparkle (or equivalent to SCR without
>> using input managers). Something nicely encapsulated that we can drop
>> into any project and get instant crash reports. Doing this as an
>> Adium-specific project would be doing the Mac community a disservice.
>> My research so far indicates that google breakpad is the obvious
>> choice for a backend (with access to all of Mozilla's serverside
>> tools built to go with it, see http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/ for an
>> early version), but I'm open to other suggestions.
>>
>> 					David
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>>
>>> Before I quit irc again (9th time, and it's sticking so far!),
>>> David and
>>> I were discussing our crash logger options. Breakpad gets brought
>>> up a
>>> lot, but in general we've been floating around a few different
>>> things.
>>> The idea for 1.1 was soc2006, and 1.2 is soc2007. I'd like 1.3 to
>>> focus
>>> on getting better crash reporting statistics, but that's just me.
>>> What
>>> does everyone think about making a concerted effort for getting
>>> better
>>> crash log stats in 1.3 so that we can start working better on
>>> those in
>>> general and have a better idea of longterm changes in code being
>>> effective for crash prevention/resolution?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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