376720 - send time-since-install with crash report

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Crash reporter should send time-since-install with crash report.  Needs clarification from Jay--is this time since the original install, or time since the last update?

Comment 1

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

The time depends on what we will find most useful.  I would think most of our analysis will be done based on versions, so I think it will be best to reset the counter with each new build/version... as long as we are able to keep a persistent unique user id that will allow us to track this data across builds/versions installed by the same user.

Ideally, we would have two counters, one for the total usage by the user per install location, and one for each build/version at each install location.  Is that too much to ask for? ;-)

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Attachment: send InstallTime data

Stealing this bug back.  This patch sends an InstallTime field.  It's just a time_t value representing the time when this Build ID was first run.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 272647 [details] [diff] [review]
send InstallTime data

Talking with luser on IRC, a subsequent patch should also record the crash date so that we can do time math relatively accurately.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Checked in.  I'll probably roll crash date into a patch for bug 376721.