http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9516/
The question is: Why is "apport" disabled in final releases by default?

Are there not sometimes programms that just hang and have to be killed by the user? Are we not sometimes thinking "Should I report this?".

The process "apport" provides an easy to use bug reporting tool to improve Ubuntu, so it should be enabled by default.

Someone could say: "Oh no, i don't wont to see "apport" everytime a programm crashes!". For this case it should provide a simple checkbox: "Don't ask me again."


At the moment, if you want to use apport, you have to enable it in the file "/etc/default/apport".

[213 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #9516


[1 votes] Solution #2: Bug and Crash reporting Wizard


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Apport is enabled by default, but only on development releases.

The reason for this is that there is little that can be done about problems in already released versions as they are frozen, and so troubling the user doesn't give them much benefit.

I don't know if this idea is "won't fix", but it's a concious decision to turn it off at the moment.
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There are always problems that take longer to be fixed, but the more problems are reported the more can be fixed.

For that reason I think we should provide "apport" in final releases, too.]]> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:43:06 +0000
If you'd like to help triage bugs, [2] is a good place to start.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs]]> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:03:34 +0000
Even duplicate automated bug reports work to prioritize the importance and frequency with which bugs are occurring, to indicate which bugs should take precedence. No-one imagines that all bugs will always be able to be fixed, but if one bug has 10000 bug reports and another has 2, then at least developers can know which one would be more useful to work on.

At very least it seems that it should be easy to turn on bug reporting via a gui tool, so that a user with the interest in starting to automatically report bugs can easily begin to do so. Currently apport requires command line editing to even turn on.]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:03:07 +0000