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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:42:10PM +0100, Sense Hofstede wrote:
> 2009/11/23 Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > At UDS Lucid one thing we were discussing was the small quantity of bug
> > patterns being written and how it is hard to discover for which bugs to
> > write a pattern.  It was suggested that the apport retracer subscribe
> > us, the Ubuntu Bug Control team, to bug reports with more than 10
> > duplicates as a way of notifying us that a bug could use a pattern.
> > After the pattern was written the team would be unsubscribed from the
> > bug report.  I like this idea a lot but would like to hear from other
> > team members too.
> >
> Hello,
> 
> Watching often reported bugs is probable indeed a good way of
> determining what should be added to Apport. However, I do think it is
> important to compare multiple bug reports. What's very useful for one
> bug report, may be useless to all the others. We need overview and a
> way to remind the bugs that can be a useful source of information for
> writing Apport hooks.

I apologize if I was not clear but I am talking about bug patterns[1],
not apport hooks.  These patterns disable the filing of bugs by apport
for specific bug reports.

[1]
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol/apport/ubuntu-bugpatterns
 
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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com

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