Release Management/WER Investigation/2011-10-10

Attendees: Alex Keybl, Laura Thomson, Ted Mielczarek

Agenda & Notes

• Get a high level overview of breakpad and crash-stats, if possible
  • On crash, we currently send a minidump + .extra file (has key/value pairs with extra metadata)
  • storage concern for dumps (currently blocked for larger than 20 MB)
  • overall sizing of hang/crash data (Alex will look into this)
  • when we currently fail to write a mini dump (0 byte mini dump), we still submit .extra
  • rather than only taking crashes data, may instead aggregate event data (Laura to discuss with team)
  • May want to separate separate winqual data given different amounts of data coming in - weighting is desirable though
• Clarify a couple of legal's concerns
• Find out everybody who needs to be involved to get WER data tracking
  • Daniel Einspringer - crash storage (storage requirements)
  • Corey Shield - systems (access, audit trail)
  • rel-eng for file mappings (bug needed)
• Discuss overlap between current crash data and WER data
  • This will be more obvious upon further analysis (Ted?)
• Timing
  • Need to check with Sheila about priority (Alex)
• Other actions
  • Alex to send Ted/Laura sample dumps
  • Laura to brainstorm getting the crashes into the system with team
  • Next meeting the week of the 17th - info to come