[Enhancement request] Guided Bug recording for Wine

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orleans
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[Enhancement request] Guided Bug recording for Wine

Post by orleans »

Create a way to easy create a Bug report for Wine.

Goal of this:
  • Get better quality of bug reports about failed installation
  • get more bug reports
  • Made it more easy for bug hunter to hunt bugs
A basic version of this wizard could be created and continuously enhanced along with analysing and some automatism like auto retry. A more distant goal could be to have a tool, that could prompt user what additional tools they may need to install to get a software working if it crash.

Idea for installation:
  • User do start a bug report
  • Chose: Enter download URL of the Application (preferred) or choose the Binary
  • Optional: Argument for starting the application (e.g. --silent, )
  • Optional: chose additional software needed (e.g. vc redist)
    --> If possible autodetect needed additional software (e.g. auto retry install software if it crash because an additional software is needed --> require a silent installation)
  • Optional: enter filename that should be started if the installation was successful (record crashes on first start)
  • Optional: you allow to video-record what happen.
  • Required: System Report (Hardware and software)
  • Required: [connect] to https://gitlab.winehq.org to auto upload this record
  • OK
  • After tick OK a sandbox with a clean wine and prefix is created.
  • Software get downloaded if needed
  • software installation
    (auto install additional software if correct detected and auto retry of the installation)
  • Installation aborted, cancelled or successful
  • report is created, logs and video recording
  • the wine profile get compacted
  • Report get uploaded to https://gitlab.winehq.org
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Re: [Enhancement request] Guided Bug recording for Wine

Post by rado84 »

I'd prefer if they just make wine save a log file of the same thing you see in terminal when you run "wine game.exe". Most of the time the problems are caused by the game or software themselves, not by wine. So a proper and easy to find log (like ~/.wine/game.exe.log which is completely rewritten with new content, if you run "wine game.exe" more than once) would be the better thing.
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