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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 16/04/2019 23:25, Mark Roszko wrote:
> 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

Hi Mark,

I took some inspiration from Mozilla (mainly the 'apologies' text ;-),
but never had a serious look at Breakpad. I'm worried how many external
dependencies it would bring (both on the software packaging and server
side). Has anybody here used it?

> 
> 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 
For the moment, the reporter uses a simple YAML-based format that is
both human- and machine-readable. As such it's IMHO already quite
useful, especially for tracking down Windows bugs (have you ever used
GDB under Windows? :D)

> 
> 
> 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.

The user can always review the report text and (s)he's informed about
this. No data is sent automatically. The report doesn't contain the
username unless there's some DLLs/executables linked to KiCad existing
in the home directory. No other personal data is collected (unless paths
to system libraries/CPU register values/stack trace are considered
personal data).

Cheers,
Tom