418856 - want topcrash reports that allow telling which crashes are fixed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Socorro :: General, task, P2)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It's very hard to tell from http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/bybranch/1.9 which crashes have been fixed recently, for two reasons:

 1. its definition of "the last 2 weeks" is the date of the crash, not the date of the build

 2. it doesn't show any notion of change-over-time

I'd like a report that allows eyeballing whether crashes have been fixed, much like http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FF2x/FF2x-topcrashers.html (which isn't all that useful on branch, since the number of users is so low, but was quite useful when it was generated for trunk).  I'm not saying it needs to be exactly the same UI.

However, if we want to do a strong push on topcrashes between now an Firefox 3 final (or especially if we do so between release candidates), we want to be able to get fixes in and get quick feedback within days whether the fixes did or didn't work, and whether the fixes happened to have fixed additional crash signatures that we didn't expect them to fix.

Comment 1

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

(In reply to comment #0)
>  1. its definition of "the last 2 weeks" is the date of the crash, not the date
> of the build

I talked this out with morgamic previously. I thought it was filed, but I can't seem to find it. We should definitely be doing this for trunk but not for release builds.

>  2. it doesn't show any notion of change-over-time

morgamic was working on spark lines for this. They'd appear at or near the end on the topcrash pages.

Comment 2

[chris hofmann]

going to suggest that this gets moved up to p2.  we are using a wiki page to help track this summary info right now ( http://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Topcrashes ) , but having crash reporter and bugzilla connected would make things a lot more efficient.

Comment 4

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

This is the UI portion of bug 411397

Comment 5

[Laura Thomson :laura]

I think this is done with the graphs next to each signature on e.g.
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/Firefox/3.6.4

(Reopen if I'm wrong, or this is insufficient)