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I like how games typically handle this; if the application crashes a dialog appears asking if you want to send a crash report, and often tells you what's includ
by beaconstudios 5y ago
I like how games typically handle this; if the application crashes a dialog appears asking if you want to send a crash report, and often tells you what's included in said report.
- genezeta 5y agoMany Windows applications used to do that. Just search for "crash report dialog" images and you'll find many of them. Firefox does it too. And it keeps a log of past crashes on about:crashes where you can decide which ones to submit.
- jeroenhd 5y agoMany versions of Android do the same (although the details may differ, that's the beauty and the curse of open source). After crashing a (on some devices, only after a few times), you get a popup that says something like "<app name> appears to stop unexpectedly, would you like to report this to the developer?" If you click on the details button, you can see almost everything outside of pure hexdumps of RAM. There's no need for automatic sample submission if you respect your users' privacy.
- marcosdumay 5y agoOn a more CLI oriented design, take a look at Debian's report-bug program. It's completely transparent, and still gathers enough information that most times a one-line description of the bug is enough for anybody to understand everything that happened on your system.