[Sugar-devel] Call for volunteers to implement Bug Report feature

[Sebastian Dziallas]

C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Mathieu Bridon
> (bochecha)<bochecha at fedoraproject.org>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 18:29, Luke Faraone<luke at faraone.cc>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:53, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One of sugar lacks is an easy way to send bugreports(especially for
>>>> non-tech users), so if someone interested in please pick [1] up.
>>>
>>>  From what I've seen on IRC, Sebastian Dziallas is currently working on a
>>> solution, either by porting Apport to Sugar, using GNOME's bug-buddy, or the
>>> Fedora bug reporter. (still in the investigative stage)
>
> FWIW, at my current company we:
>   a) use apport, tied to our internal bug tracker (fogbugz) -- it works
> great.  So apport++ in general, but it works best for *automatically
> generated* bugs (ie, crashes).
>   b) We *also* have a very simple web-based bug reporter -- basically
> it just opens a web site with a simple form on it.   It should be
> pretty trivial to make an activity based on Browse that just points to
> a local html file which submits to bugzilla (or some other database).
> I'd recommend using this to collect feedback which is not crashes.
>    --scott

Oh, that sounds cool! :)

Yeah, as Luke said, I'm investigating both Ubuntu's Apport and Fedora's 
ABRT. However, I'm not yet sure if they'll fit our needs, so we might 
also end up with something web-based, yeah.

/me hrms and wants to get this to work soonish...

--Sebastian