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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Updates on Automated Error Reporting: Started with Mars M2

Thanks David.

> Don't be too quick to write all those off as "user error“. 

True. Although useful, it's a different use case than I’m currently heading for (finding problematic locations in code).
If we’d add this it would require some person reviewing those items and/or needs code to be written especially for that purpose.

If you are interested in getting those error messages (say, by mail or send to some web url / cgi script under your control) - let me know.
I’d be glad to send those reports to you to build your specialized reports.

Best,
Marcel



Am 09.10.2014 um 20:23 schrieb David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Sound quite promising Marcel, not to mention cool!  :) 
> 
> One caution though, about one specific item you mentioned several times:  "... users entering a non-existing update site url ..." 
> 
> Don't be too quick to write all those off as "user error". Believe it or not, some project's repositories include incorrect or obsolete "reference sites". That's one reason we stopped "copying them" to the Sim. Release repo. (That, and there was just too many, to be meaningful to users). 
> 
> I do not think there is a way to detect which were entered by user, and which were "data" provided by a project's repo. 
> 
> Perhaps you are talking about obvious typo's or something. But, if not, you might want to "keep a list" of non-existing sites you find in the reports, in a common "cross-project" bug, or something? (In the past, when I open bugs on invalid ones, projects were very slow to fix, if they fixed at all.) 
> 
> Good luck, 
> 

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