[Phpmyadmin-devel] Treat error reports individually or as groups

[Rouslan Placella]

On 07/17/2013 09:05 AM, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Dne Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:34:33 +0200
> Mohamed Ashraf <mohamed.ashraf.213 at gmail.com> napsal(a):
> 
>> Error reports are submitted individually and are stored individually
>> in the database. however I am not sure of the usage statistics of
>> phpmyadmin however exceptions happen and an automated report system is
>> bound to send a huge amount of error reports.
>>
>> The system should be able to mark a report as related to another
>> report either manually or hopefully automatically with some degree of
>> effectiveness. When a developer views an error report should I display
>> only the information in that error report or should I show the info in
>> related error reports as well. for example if this specific report
>> came from a chrome 23.7.5.253 browser and just provide links at the
>> bottom to related reports or I can show the browser versions in
>> related error reports as well.
>>
>> The good thing about showing the related info in the same report is
>> that the developer may be able to see patterns to help diagnose the
>> problem however the problems is that it would clutter the interface
>> and there may be alot of differences in the reports that every report
>> is different and there may be a 1000 different browser versions
>> affected in the related reports if for example it has nothing to do
>> with browser versions.
> 
> I'd really prefer to have some groupping, because otherwise the number
> of reports will become not manageable in case there will be some
> frequently hit bug in a release.
> 
> If you are able to reliably link similar issues together, it would make
> sense to display them all at single page (possibly hiding some details
> if there are too many of them).
> 
> Again, taking oops.kernel.org as an example:
> 
> http://oops.kernel.org/browse-reports/oops-detail/?id=261
> 
> So you can see that this bug on this kernel was hit by 6446 people with
> three different backtraces.

I agree, the system needs to be able to automatically group incoming
reports.

Bye,
Rouslan

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