Breakpad/Status Meetings/2009-Oct-14

(transcluded from Q4 Goals.)

Q4 focuses on achieving our metrics goals. (will make this public shortly)

Trying to migrate this to a better format: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t6zyWLsUinWwzS2_igS2grQ

• Improve ability to spot trends in crash data
  • create python API for JSON output to all trending interfaces bug 523653
  • need nightly crash correlation reports across all firefox releasesbug 521917
  • Need to add changes in rank to top crash reports bug 411397

• Build out administration panel
  • Interface for managing product versions bug 454620
  • Expose url for mozuser 415027
  • raw stack dump and registers 411431 (stretch goal?)

• Prepare crash system for future reports and growth
  • Eliminate need for deferred storage bug 378528 -- is there a server piece to this?
  • Modify crash reporter URL to get more comprehensive access logs bug 521349
  • Crunch access logs through metrics data warehouse bug 519871

Other Current Issues

• Application Server backing the PHP app?
  • reprise of Austin's call from the Socorro work week
  • make a well defined API
  • frees the UI from both SQL and business logic
  • trends code easier to write in Python rather than SQL or PHP
  • theoretically makes the UI less subject to bit rot when the back end changes
• Collector changes
  • the end of client side throttling is happening with 3.6 this quarter!
    • Bug 521923
    • need to scrutinize collector capacity, efficiency and settings
    • collector will need to handle nearly an order of magnitude more traffic
  • new Socorro NFS storage brings show stopper performance problems
    • Bug 522103
    • changes to the way JsonDumpStorage works can mitigate the problem
• the materialized views - finally a working theory - it's all about timing
  • scripts trying to aggregate current time windows when the processor is behind schedule
  • willing to bet this is why the old reports failed, too

Other stuff?