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

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Jason J. Hellenthal" <jasonh at 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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