[Opensim-dev] Automated Bug Reporting

[Olish Newman]

Hello !

We will do all we can to help too at New World Grid. This automated 
report system will allow us to contribute more easily. Thanks !
We have a 4x4 regions mainland and many other regions hosted on Windows 
2003 / Ubuntu Server.

Kind regards,
Olish.

> The subject has been raised recently, in anticipation of the 0.6.0 
> release about including an automated bug report process in OpenSim, 
> obviously it would be switched off by default, but the option would 
> exist to have exceptions logged in OpenSim reported to the Mantis bug 
> tracker automatically.
>
> The big advantage to doing so is it becomes easier to prioritise which 
> bugs need to be fixed – issues which occur frequently would 
> immediately become visible (whereas right now they aren’t so much). It 
> would also allow us to get some debug feedback on features we 
> implement – ie internal exceptions which we ignore right now could be 
> dumped onto the mantis with appropriate tags.
>
> The solution I am considering for implementing this is the 
> MantisConnect .NET adapter which basically uses the mantis SOAP 
> interface – right now we’ve got a section of code in the main 
> OpenSim.exe which handles the ‘last exception’ – I’d like to put the 
> code initially in there, then open the option up for developers to 
> report bugs via a ‘Util’ member function at a later point.
>
> In terms of Mantis itself, I’m thinking it might be best to setup a 
> second project for the automated reports – while we lose the ability 
> to then link issues as ‘related’ with a manual report, it also avoids 
> cluttering up the project with thousands of automated reports.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Adam
>