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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:22:32 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Jason J. Hellenthal" <jasonh@DataIX.net>
Cc:        Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>, Ken Smith <kensmith@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197065 - in stable/8: etc/defaults lib/libc/stdlib sys/amd64/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf
Message-ID:  <86tyza6j47.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909110139470.42661@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> (Jason J. Hellenthal's message of "Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:00:58 -0400")
References:  <200909101404.n8AE41C6021588@svn.freebsd.org> <200909101023.44913.jhb@freebsd.org> <1252593149.75144.18.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <200909101118.22525.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909101641170.78984@fledge.watson.org> <B2406051-CD40-4559-82AB-5F517A17D332@elvandar.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909101759280.32227@fledge.watson.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909110139470.42661@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny>

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"Jason J. Hellenthal" <jasonh@DataIX.net> writes:
> If I may, I would like to introduce a distributed targeting system to
> this conversation in addition to crashinfo. Given with the above
> conversations I cant help but think that in a case like this it would
> be helpful to setup a central database for collection of information
> and write a little bit more code into crashinfo for uuencoding a blob
> to send through email or maybe another way so data can be collected,
> sorted & analyzed with statistics spilled out into a web page for
> review.

It's a good idea in principle, but I'm worried that such a system might
get flooded with crash reports from people running old -STABLE versions
and / or local patches.  There is no way we can control that, neither in
the client script nor at the receiving end.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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