automated crash reporting

[Be]

We could catch crashes much more effectively if Mixxx had a crash reporting system built in that sent us reports with backtraces.

[Sébastien BLAISOT (sblaisot)]

addressing this should be really careful with private data (especially those found in the logs like path etc...). privacy laws around the globe cover a large part of that.

[Be (be.ing)]

Any volunteers to look into this for 2.2? Sébastien?

[Be (be.ing)]

This is essential to create high quality software people can rely on!

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

google breakpad, the crash reporter used in Chrome, is pretty nice
https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad

[Be (be.ing)]

We may want to take a look at Firefox's crash reporting system. It uses Google Breakpad plus some custom GUI code around that:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Crash_reporting

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

relevant: https://github.com/JPNaude/dev_notes/wiki/Using-Google-Breakpad-with-Qt

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Looks like we already have some error reporting thanks to Ubuntu:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/?package=mixxx&period=year
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker

It doesn't seem to cover PPA crash reports. I filed Bug #1793181 to ask how we can get those.

[Be (be.ing)]

VLC has been working on a backend server for sending crash reports to:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/CrashDragon

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/8977