445590 - provide a pref to indicate that crash reports should be auto-priority

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

We should add a pref that indicates that submitted crash reports should be auto-priority. The server-side would give these reports priority by default. This would be for developers/testers who know they want to see their reports.

Comment 1

[timeless]

don't make it a pref. let people register email addresses on the server as auto priority. then people submitting reports w/ those email addresses get auto priority.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

That's much more of a pain in the ass. Also, we're considering getting rid of email collecting.

Comment 3

[timeless]

anything client side will be abused eventually and become useless.

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> anything client side will be abused eventually and become useless.

Not if we don't advertise it. For 99% of users, they won't know it even exists and that's good enough for me.

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Yeah, I don't think it's that big a deal. We were handling 100% of crash reports through the beta period of Firefox 3 without any problems, so even if a few million people turn this on, we should be fine.

Comment 6

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Do you guys know what this flag will be named?

Comment 7

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I haven't touched anything yet, so pick a name!

Comment 8

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

priority

Comment 9

[K Lars Lohn [:lars] [:klohn]]

This would require some changes to the way that priority jobs are handled.  Currently, identification of priority jobs is handled through the WebApp talking to the database.  The monitor sees these requests and queues the jobs appropriately.  To keep the collector database free, we'd have to devise another channel of communication with the monitor for identification of priority jobs - likely via the file system.  The latest version of monitor is much more modular in the way that it handles priority jobs.  Adding this secondary communication channel would not be particularly disruptive.

Comment 10

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Y'know, the current system seems to be working pretty well.