HardwareDatabaseClientOverhaul
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* '''Launchpad entry''': none yet | * '''Launchpad entry''': UbuntuSpec:hwdb-overhaul |
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Launchpad entry: hwdb-overhaul
Packages affected:
Summary
Rationale
Use cases
- Information about a machine to help diagnosing a bug report
- Locating users willing to assist with testing new upstream versions that may fix their issue
- Providing hardware statistics when communicating to vendors (anonymous data)
- Laptop testing and certification
- Highlighting hardware/driver combination conflicts
- Comparing before/after situations when swapping between two alternate drivers.
Scope
Design
Implementation
Code
Data preservation and migration
Unresolved issues
BoF agenda and discussion
- Once the data is filtered and anonymized, apport should include the ID in bug reports
- Remove the bling stuff from hwdb-client (gnome-canvas prevents i18n), i18n and HIGify it. Also remove the comment field since it looks like bug reports through the backdoor
- Fedora's smolt project looks promising; we might be able to share code/db with those and should merge the wizard style
- Allow HWDB client to be run a second time, such as if a user changes hardware or if the submit didn't work (if it's already implemented, make it an easy-to-find button)
HardwareDatabaseClientOverhaul (last edited 2008-12-09 21:07:17 by jan4)