[Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

[John Smith]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Joel Madero <jmadero.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sounds good, but I agree with John that better instructions are needed. I'm
> working on a new triage page and hopefully in there we can get someone to
> contribute incredibly precise, easy for noobs, instructions for every type
> of backtrace/debug. Right now they are really written by experts for experts
> (IMO). I would backtrace much more frequently if I could follow the
> instructions on how to do it. Every time I feel like I have to go on IRC and
> ask 100 questions.
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> I don't think we have enough people packaging to make pre-built binaries for
> everyone. Plus, these are huge, my install is 22 gigs with all symbols on,
> not very good for packaging purposes.
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I guess it all depends on who your target audience is. If you really
want end-users (libre office users) to provide backtraces, you really
need to make the threshold for doing that as low as possible. I dont
think it is reasonable to have end-users compile source code for
themselves; especially on windows, where it requires msvc or cygwin to
do so.