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Re: Private apport crashes

 

Brian M.,

Should we be commenting on the bugs we make public from private saying
so? (assuming we don't adopt the bug to begin with)

~Brian C.

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--Wernher Von Braun
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now that the final version of Jaunty is out and Karmic is in the early
> stages of development apport should be reporting very few new crash
> reports.  Subsequently, it seems like a great time to work on reducing
> the quantity of private apport crash reports!  Private apport crashes
> are only visible to a small subset of people, those in Ubuntu Bug
> Control, so its best to make them public.  However, this is something
> that needs to be done manually as crash reports may contain private
> data.  For further information regarding the process see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage#Apport%20crash%20reports.
>
> While private bug reports are easily identified in a bug list, by the
> padlock icon, I thought it might help to have a complete list of all
> private apport crashes[1].  Pedro also asked for numbers so we have a
> total, 3142!, and the top 10 packages with the most private crashes at
> the bottom of the page.  Let's make a concerted effort to drive this
> number to 0!
>
> http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/private-apport-crashes.html
>
> Additionally, if you happen to run across any private data please let me
> know as I'm looking at these packages and how to possibly prevent the
> data from being submitted.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
>
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