1308476 - Replace the current heuristic for startup crashes by using the new StartupCrash annotation

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Socorro :: General, task)

Description

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

The current heuristic, described by Adrian in bug 1297966 comment 5, is brittle compared to the newly introduced StartupCrash annotation.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

We currently annotate startup crashes with a little rocket icon in some views. That's a useful thing, but I think we should change the icon somehow to indicate that the meaning of "startup crash" has changed.

(Thinking some more, perhaps we should keep the old one for a while. I think the old heuristic will match a lot more crashes than the new StartupCrash annotation will. It would be good to be able to evaluate the difference for a while.)

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Nicholas Nethercote [:njn] from comment #1)
> We currently annotate startup crashes with a little rocket icon in some
> views. That's a useful thing, but I think we should change the icon somehow
> to indicate that the meaning of "startup crash" has changed.
> 
> (Thinking some more, perhaps we should keep the old one for a while. I think
> the old heuristic will match a lot more crashes than the new StartupCrash
> annotation will. It would be good to be able to evaluate the difference for
> a while.)

Perhaps we can add a different icon for the "new" ones and use two icons for a
while, so we clearly see the differences.

Comment 3

[[DEACTIVATED] Adrian Gaudebert]

Attachment: Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/pull/3535

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/socorro

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/04d83e4c39c8773daf3841f739d328a88acd6ff7
Fixes bug 1308476 - Added a new icon for startup crashes. (#3535)

* Fixes bug 1308476 - Added a new icon for startup crashes.

* reviews

* Added a comment.

* updated software to client

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