Firefox/Features/about-crashes

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Status

Make crash reports helpful and easier to access
Stage Definition
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Health OK
Status note Waiting for UX input.

Team

Product manager Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual Sheila Mooney
Lead engineer Blair McBride
Security lead `
Privacy lead `
Localization lead `
Accessibility lead `
QA lead Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
UX lead Alex Limi
Product marketing lead `
Operations lead `
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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Improve about:crashes to be more helpful and easier to access crash reports.

2. Users & use cases

Average user

  • Get links to recent crash report(s) for SUMO
    • Submit first, if necessary
  • Tell SUMO how often a crash is occuring
  • Disable add-on suspected of causing crash (assuming it hasn't been blocklisted)

Technical user / Developer

  • Gather more information when its needed to debug the crash

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

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Non-goals

  • Will not change the way crash reports are gathered/submitted.
  • Is not a replacement for crash-stats.
  • Will not provide all information that crash-stats provides.

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

Additional information to expose

  • Date/time of crash
  • Related SUMO articles
  • Related bugs
  • Whether it's been submitted or not (currently hidden in the obscure format of the ID)
  • User comment
  • Whether we (Mozilla) want additional information to help diagnose the crash
  • Whether it's known/suspected to be caused by a certain addon
    • Include a button to disable that addon

Potentially useful info for technical users (toggle-able via hidden pref?):

  • Crash signature

Notes

  • Group by date range?
    • Makes it easier to see time-based trends
  • Remove usage of "bp-" syntax
    • Obscure way to expose whether something is submitted already, or will be submitted by clicking link
    • Removing this will make pasting-into-Bugzilla fail :( We can de-emphasize the UUIDs, but when providing a list to paste, we should keep the prefix. Jesse 04:32, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

Vaguely related bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336872

Related project: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crash-report-helper/

Related project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/PostCrash

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

Priority P3
Rank 999
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Roadmap User Support
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Feature list Desktop
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Engineering team Desktop front-end

Team status notes

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