Re: Propose for Several Dump types

From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 12/15/04

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    Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:47:05 -0600
To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>

    In the last episode (Dec 15), Mark Linimon said:
    > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:
    > > I like the idea of automated send capabilities. However, what is
    > > this going to mean for the already cluttered GNATS database?
    >
    > I believe the word we are looking for is "catastrophic."
    >
    > We should think long and hard before automating the sending of what
    > might be very large files into GNATS. GNATS is a flat-text=file
    > datatbase with a fragile format and primitive search capabilities
    > (kind of goes with that territory). I don't even want to think about
    > what this would do to its performance (remember that several people
    > mirror it via cvsup.)
    >
    > Having some kind of ability to save off the info is no doubt a good
    > idea, but auto-submitting it isn't. (Imagine for a moment the number
    > of downrev versions of FreeBSD that are still installed ...)

    An ideal would be something like Mozilla's talkback, where something
    aggregates the submitted stack traces and gives you a summary. Even
    sending the traces to a mailinglist with a searchable archive would be
    useful, though.
      

    -- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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