[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] report-error.bbclass: Add support for autosending

[Paul Eggleton]

Hey Beth,

On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:26:01 Elizabeth 'pidge' Flanagan wrote:
> This commit pulls and extends the functionality of .oe-error-report into
> local.conf. It maintains the functionality of .oe-error-report.
> 
> It also enables report-error to automatically send error reports to a
> specified error report server. This patch enables infrastructure ppl to
> set development teams up so that we can gather error metrics automatically.
> 
> This relies on a new set of variables:
> 
> REPORTERROR[autosend]="yes|no|ask"
> REPORTERROR[user]=username
> REPORTERROR[email]=email
> REPORTERROR[server]=error-report-web instance
> 
> For autosend yes and no are pretty self explainatory. ask does not pass
> the -y flag to send-error-report, thus enabling the end user to review
> the report prior to submission.

I'm not sure if sentiment has changed on this issue (FWIW, it hasn't really
on my part), but this topic did come up before - start of thread here:

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-March/090621.html

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre