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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just to throw it out there

Did you consider at all at using something off the shelf such as Breakpad
which both Mozilla and Chrome use?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad
https://github.com/google/breakpad

There's then some off the shelf software potentially for processing
Breakpad reports such as this service:
https://help.backtrace.io/pricing-data-protection-privacy-and-terms/pricing-and-tiers/backtrace-for-open-source



Also do the data reports avoid identifying info such as usernames which
might fall under GDPR? Not to mention we'll need a privacy notice added in
somewhere anyway for collecting data.


On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 6:50 PM Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The attached patchset introduces a builtin crash reporter for Kicad -
> that is a window that pops up in case of a segmentation fault/other
> serious error, kindly apologizes to the user and lets him/her submit
> (anonymously) a bug report to us. It's loosely based on wxDebugReport,
> with a lot of new code (i.e. stack walker for windows or more meaningful
> report format...).
>
> This is particularly targeted at Windows/OSX users, since getting a
> useful stack trace on these systems is considerably more difficult (at
> least for non-programmers) than on (L)Unixes.
>
> I invite you to test it, in case recent KiCad nightlies have become too
> stable, you can always simulate a crash through 'Help->Simulate Kicad
> Crash'.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>
>
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Mark