Propose for Several Dump types

[Dan Nelson]

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.
 
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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com