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• Launchpad entry: hwdb-overhaul

• Packages affected:

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 [https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/ 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.

• There's another program for gathering hardware information: http://hardware4linux.info/

• There is also an older similar spec: ExtendHwdb

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