[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> writes:

> On Thu October 14 2010, Jerald Sheets wrote:
>> It shouldn't be Sally bookkeeper's job to report bugs. ?That is, I believe,
>> where we will fundamentally disagree, but it is the state of the market and
>> is what we are stuck with.
>
> if they made bug reporting a little easier, and maybe STANDARDIZED... or even 
> automated.. when it crashes, or does something WRONG, you click "REPORT AN 
> ISSUE", without having to go to some website you don't know, create yet 
> another login & password, jump through a few hoops.. oops, time to go home, 
> havta get that tomorrow, if I remember:)

Actually, there are a number of packages (of which I believe OOo is one)
that is part of a collaporative debugging project where crashes ARE
automatically reported to some university site.  This has been a part of
Fedora between at least Fedora 9-12, and possibly more systems.

-derek
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