HardwareDatabaseClientOverhaul

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 * Information about a machine to help diagnosing a bug report
 * Locating users willing to assist with testing new upstream versions that may fix their issue
 * Providing hardware statistics when communicating to vendors (anonymous data)
 * Laptop testing and certification
 * Highlighting hardware/driver combination conflicts
 * Comparing before/after situations when swapping between two alternate drivers.
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Please see the feedback from Usability El on KubuntuHWDBFeedback  * Once the data is filtered and anonymized, apport should include the ID in bug reports

 * Remove the bling stuff from hwdb-client (gnome-canvas prevents i18n), i18n and HIGify it. Also remove the comment field since it looks like bug reports through the backdoor

 * Fedora's smolt project looks promising; we might be able to share code/db with those and should merge the wizard style

 * Allow HWDB client to be run a second time, such as if a user changes hardware or if the submit didn't work (if it's already implemented, make it an easy-to-find button)

 * See www.dohickey-project.com for an interesting hardware database program.

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Summary

Rationale

Use cases

  • Information about a machine to help diagnosing a bug report
  • Locating users willing to assist with testing new upstream versions that may fix their issue
  • Providing hardware statistics when communicating to vendors (anonymous data)
  • Laptop testing and certification
  • Highlighting hardware/driver combination conflicts
  • Comparing before/after situations when swapping between two alternate drivers.

Scope

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Unresolved issues

BoF agenda and discussion

  • Once the data is filtered and anonymized, apport should include the ID in bug reports
  • Remove the bling stuff from hwdb-client (gnome-canvas prevents i18n), i18n and HIGify it. Also remove the comment field since it looks like bug reports through the backdoor
  • Fedora's smolt project looks promising; we might be able to share code/db with those and should merge the wizard style
  • Allow HWDB client to be run a second time, such as if a user changes hardware or if the submit didn't work (if it's already implemented, make it an easy-to-find button)
  • See www.dohickey-project.com for an interesting hardware database program.

CategorySpec

HardwareDatabaseClientOverhaul (last edited 2008-12-09 21:07:17 by jan4)