supported apps page, crash reporting, and phoning home on success

[Dan Kegel]

I was looking for a newbie project recommendation
(for someone else, not me!), and figured
"pick a popular windows app, and firm up wine support for it"
would be a good one.  Not knowing what apps are popular,
I paid a visit to the winehq supported apps page.
I noticed the page didn't have links to the apps' homepages,
so I posted a patch to fix that.

We're probably missing some apps that people
use and like.  I don't know where to get good data
on this, though (I'm no Windows user!)
Maybe we need to add a 'phone home' sort of option
to Wine so that it gives people the option of
uploading crash and/or success data for each app the
user runs to winehq?  It could upload once a day,
no need to upload any more often, probably.
- Dan

[Michael S. Zick]

On Sat May 8 2004 02:16, Dan Kegel wrote:
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> Maybe we need to add a 'phone home' sort of option
> to Wine so that it gives people the option of
> uploading crash and/or success data for each app the
> user runs to winehq?

To a new user of wine...
That sounds good - a 'success' tracker;
Similar to a 'bug' tracker, with an 'auto-submit' script
that gets all of the details needed in an 'auto update'
formatted submission.
Mike

[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 08 May 2004 00:16:23 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I was looking for a newbie project recommendation
> (for someone else, not me!), and figured
> "pick a popular windows app, and firm up wine support for it"
> would be a good one.

Well, depends how much they know about coding. Picking a random app and
debugging it is risky - it could be a super-easy fix or it could be a
total nightmare that would even stump Alexandre. There's just no way to
know. That sort of thing is great as long as you are willing to drop the
app and move on if you can't solve it.
> Maybe we need to add a 'phone home' sort of option
> to Wine so that it gives people the option of
> uploading crash and/or success data for each app the
> user runs to winehq?  It could upload once a day,
> no need to upload any more often, probably.

I think it's been discussed before, but the obvious problem is what do we
do with all the crash data? Who is going to analyse it? Not me. We really
don't have the manpower to deal with triaging bugzilla let alone doing
something useful with crash reports. Maybe if the Wine team quadrupled in
size overnight .....