Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752639Ab3HUTfI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:35:08 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:49896 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751969Ab3HUTfG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:35:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:13:02 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Dave Jones Cc: Anton Arapov , "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg KH , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ATTEND] oops.kernel.org prospect Message-ID: <20130821151302.GA9071@nazgul.tnic> References: <20130819085405.GA22328@bandura.laptop> <20130819145505.GB15178@kroah.com> <20130819151643.GC19070@bandura.laptop> <20130819153939.GA23875@thunk.org> <20130819155202.GF19070@bandura.laptop> <20130819212512.GA7918@redhat.com> <20130820080243.GB2613@bandura.laptop> <20130820082216.GA13078@pd.tnic> <20130820123748.GB23101@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130820123748.GB23101@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1610 Lines: 38 On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:37:48AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > abrt used to have a free-form entry like this. What happened is users > have no idea what to type in there, so you end up with bugs containing > things like "don't know" or worse, some crazy moon language you can't > even read. Prepend the entry with an informative question maybe: "Enter bug reproduction information here:" > Two things worth noting here, are 1) the original kerneloops also > didn't collect anything like this, and was still very useful, and > 2) for the more common issues (which let's face it, are going to be > the only things people really look at) chances are pretty high that > there's going to be someone also reporting it on lkml, or in a distro > bug tracker. Ok. > What might be useful however, is collecting things like > dmi/lspci/lsusb etc and _asking_ the user if they're ok with including > them at time of filing. We might scare off some of the more paranoid > OMGMYSECRETDATAS users, but chances are high most people won't care. > This requires the client to have a UI though, which aiui, it currently > doesn't. Anton? Definitely a step in the right direction. > We might also ask if they want to provide an email address for > feedback, but that leads to a bunch of questions about how we expose > that to developers without exposing it to spambots. Right. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/