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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe the errors that testers experience are representative of the
errors that customers experience. But even if that's true now, it won't
necessarily be true all the time. There might be common errors that
disproportionately/only affect customers using a language, time zone,
keyboard, carrier, scope, or local app that our testers seldom use. Or
errors that occur with the update process itself for a particular stable
update. With error reporting turned off for stable, you won't know when
this happens.

So, maybe a follow-up to this change could be to alter apport on stable
to record just error statistics, not crash files. Then you wouldn't get
a slowdown from dumping each crash, but you'd still be able to see when
stable had an error rate higher than development channels for a
particular package. When that happened, you could selectively turn on
full error reporting for just that package to see what was going on.

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Title:
  Turn crash generation off by default for phone on stable channel

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Fix Committed
Status in lxc-android-config package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  To avoid UI freezes and perceptions of slowness, we would like to turn
  this option off by default for consumers, but leave it on for
  developers and in the proposed channels.

  Once bug #1437633 is fixed, we can put "manual" in the
  whoopsie.override file

  Not sure how to do this conditionally just for stable

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