693415 - Correlation Reports does not seem to be working for Fennec

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Socorro :: General, task)

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

1. go to https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/Fennec/10.0a1/7
2. select a signature and select the correlation tab.

Expected: 
Some sort of correlation report, or at the very least a friendlier message.

Actual:
ERROR: No reports generated on 20111010 for Fennec 10.0a1. Looked at http://people.mozilla.com/crash_analysis/20111010/20111010_Fennec_10.0a1-interesting-modules.txt and http://people.mozilla.com/crash_analysis/20111010/20111010_Fennec_10.0a1-interesting-modules.txt.gz

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

The current correlation report system leaves a real lot to wish for, and work is on our planning documents to get it improved in multiple ways. For the versions is runs for, Fennec 10.0a1 is probably not hit due to two separate facts:
1) IIRC, we only generate those reports for Firefox desktop right now.
2) We only generate those reports for the 3 versions that have the most crashes reported.

Also, I'm not even sure how useful correlation reports would be for you there, unless you have a high likeliness that some third-party software loads libraries into the application or a lot of people have binary add-ons installed. I think both scenarios are not that common with Fennec right now, right?

I agree that it might be nice to have correlation reports there, but I'm not sure setting priorities there at this time is too helpful.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

FYI, bug 650904 is the top-level bug for correlations that is on our priorities list, most of other stuff in this area fully depends on that one.