automated crash reporting

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Reported by: Be-ing Date: 2017-11-17T19:23:21Z Status: Confirmed Importance: Wishlist Launchpad Issue: lp1732973

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We could catch crashes much more effectively if Mixxx had a crash reporting system built in that sent us reports with backtraces.

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Commented by: sblaisot Date: 2017-11-17T21:48:36Z

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addressing this should be really careful with private data (especially those found in the logs like path etc...). privacy laws around the globe cover a large part of that.

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Commented by: Be-ing Date: 2017-12-20T13:39:25Z

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Any volunteers to look into this for 2.2? Sébastien?

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Commented by: Be-ing Date: 2017-12-25T02:04:52Z

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This is essential to create high quality software people can rely on!

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Commented by: rryan Date: 2018-01-08T00:58:24Z

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google breakpad, the crash reporter used in Chrome, is pretty nice https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad

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Commented by: Be-ing Date: 2018-01-08T01:13:15Z

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We may want to take a look at Firefox's crash reporting system. It uses Google Breakpad plus some custom GUI code around that: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Crash_reporting

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Commented by: rryan Date: 2018-01-08T03:03:55Z

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relevant: https://github.com/JPNaude/dev_notes/wiki/Using-Google-Breakpad-with-Qt

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Commented by: rryan Date: 2018-09-18T17:22:32Z

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Looks like we already have some error reporting thanks to Ubuntu: https://errors.ubuntu.com/?package=mixxx&period=year https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker

It doesn't seem to cover PPA crash reports. I filed Bug #⁠1793181 to ask how we can get those.

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Commented by: Be-ing Date: 2018-10-16T04:43:03Z

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VLC has been working on a backend server for sending crash reports to: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/CrashDragon