[parted-devel] Updated 'PlanningEdge' substantially

[Otavio Salvador]

Anant Narayanan <anant at kix.in> writes:

>>> We can also save the command history in a file so that the history is
>>> not lost after a session, athough this has nothing to do with command
>>> logging, may be we can consider this as a feature.
>> It would be *really* nice to automatically create a text file with
>> important information when a bug occurs.  The user can then be
>> instructed to attach this to the bug he is reporting.  Part of this file
>> should be command history, of course.
>
> Just committed a patch to show command history on crash. This will
> eventually go into a file. It would be cool to see if we can
> automatically create a Trac ticket if an internet connection is
> available (with users permission of course; like bug-buddy); otherwise
> we can ask the user to attach that file with the bug report.
>
> Thoughts on how the file should be named and where must we dump it
> (/tmp?) How about parted-YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.err? (timestamp)

I like the idea of a file on /tmp

Personally, automatically reported issues are difficult to solve since
usually we need more information about what the user was doing,
hardware information, request tests and like.

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