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Dear Colleagues,
As Scott Ritchie knows, I'm at the moment the reponsible person for Wine on Ubuntu. I hope that you all know, Ubuntu has a new system for filing crash reports and stacktraces. (named apport aka automatic crash reports, some documentation is found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport)
Those reports are working quite well for all apps in Ubuntu, but not as expected for Wine, especially when windows apps are involved.
We discussed yesterday about this problem, and now we want your help, to make things better.
What we need from you:
- What do you need from us (Ubuntu) to get better backtraces when wine crashes (especially wine-preloader) - How can we work together in a better way? (e.g. crashreport will be filed in launchpad (http://www.launchpad.net) automatically, can we file a bugreport automatically in your bugzilla?) - If yes, what information do you really need, what can we tell the users, who are reporting those crashes, what they have to do to fullfill your needs for the bugreport and debugging (e.g. try to reproduce the crash while running wine in gbd, doing a backtrace with bt full, or what so ever)
Finally, we would like to have more involvement of you, Wine Developers, to make Wine a vital piece of software for Ubuntu.
And now a little call for help to Scott Ritchie :)
Scott, we talked some time ago about having you in our MOTU team, for maintaining not only debian/ubuntu packages at winehq, but also for Ubuntu. We, the Ubuntu MOTU team, and I personally think, this would be quite good having you on board. I know, that you are working hard on your packages, and we need your help. If you want, please get in touch with me (email: sh@sourcecode,de or jabber JID:sh@linux-server.org) and let's discuss how we can get you easily in our MOTU team.
Thanks for your attention,
Stephan aka \sh @ freenode.net
- -- Stephan Hermann Ubuntu Developer http://launchpad.net/~shermann shermann@ubuntu.com