Markus Mohrhard wrote:
so I managed to land the crash reporting that I presented during my FOSDEM talk finally in time for the 5.2 release.
Hey Moggi, so first off - this is just awesome. Thanks a whole bloody lot!
The idea is that you can add important information as key value pairs and they will be available together with the crash report on the server. Some information that area already part of the minidump are the OS, the CPU, the loaded modules. Keep in mind that you should only collect the information that are really necessary. Some information that we might want to select in the future: OpenCL info if OpenCL is use did we crash inside of our OpenGL code loaded extensions
This indeed all sounds quite useful. Just a very quiet, cautionary word of warning: I would sleep a bit better if we could all agree on a four eyes principle (i.e. mandatory reviews) for anything that adds new information to the crash report. It's sometimes not immediately obvious, but e.g. extension & path names, font sets etc (and who knows what else we'll come up with) can reveal quite intimate information about an installation environment. For the record, the feature & crash dumps as it is look perfectly sane. And again, thanks so much. This is a great addition to LibreOffice, I used to use the Sun-internal crash reporter that unforunately went down with that company, and it was invaluable. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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