Tom Ritter: > Hi Nur-Magomed, > > Great to have you interested in this! > > So we would want to use the Crash Reporter that's built into Mozilla > Firefox (which is called Breakpad, and is adapted from Chromium). At > a high level, I would break down the project into the following > sections: Those look all good to me. I just have one small addition/clarification below. > 1) Get the crash reporter built (at all) in our toolchain. We > currently disable it and I know there will be at least one or two > hurdles to overcome here as we've never tried to built this on > Linux-for-Windows. If you wish you could focus on a single platform > for this at a time (e.g. Linux) so you can move onto the next step. > > 2) Audit the crash reporter data and see what it is that gets > reported, when, and how. We'd want to err on the side of caution about > what we report in a dump. So we'd need to enumerate each field that > gets reported, get some samples of the data, and review if we'd want > to include it or not. We'd also want to review what prefs govern crash > submissions, how crashes get stored (which I think is on-disk next to > Tor Browser), and when they get reported. > > 3) Change the way they get reported. We absolutely cannot have crashes > sitting around on disk next to Tor Browser for the next time the user > starts the browser - no matter how much data we strip out of them. So > we'll need to brainstorm how we might try submitting them immediately > upon crash instead of next startup. Even though it seems to me the critical UX part is implicit in the section above, I thought it might be better to point it out explicitly as well: We should have a good user interface ready giving the user at least an explanation on what is going on and a way to check what is about to be sent. Georg > 4) Get a submission server running. Mozilla has a ton of tools to > analyze crashes (https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/home/product/Firefox > is one and https://github.com/mozilla/socorro is the general backend). > We should look at Socorro and probably adapt it for use by Tor rather > than building our own. > > 5) Circle back and get the crash reporter built reproducibly, and for > all platforms. I put this one last because it may be the case that > there are annoying time-sinks here, and I think by doing this last > you'll be able to make the most headway on things that will take the > most time - like enumerating, documenting, and evaluating the fields; > and fiddling with Socorro. > > > This is my take on it - Georg may have additional thoughts. > > -tom
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