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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:47:05 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Subject:   Re: Propose for Several Dump types
Message-ID:  <20041215184705.GA23842@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412151120120.14979-100000@pancho>
References:  <41C04029.7010909@gamersimpact.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412151120120.14979-100000@pancho>

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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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