Veridian 3

On a planet called Veridian III, a decisive battle was fought to prevent a future firing of a rocket into a star that would change gravitational forces and make "the nexus" crash into the planet as well as destroy the planet with a shock wave. Preventing this catastrophy made the crash of the USS Enterprise on the planet controllable as to suffer no human casualties.

In the same spirit, the project I internally dub "Veridian 3" is about dealing with crashes to make the bad ones preventable and other ones more controllable, all through prioritizing Socorro work.

Project areas

Those areas have been specified in the contract:

• Improving Crash Data Integrity
  • Identification and Removal of Duplicate Crash reports
• Improving Search Capabilities
• Improving Classification and Characterization of Crash Reports and Improved Signature Generation
• additional correlation reports to help identifying circumstances around the crash and steps to reproduce. [tag includes everything on correlations]
• Improve Trend Reports to identify and alert teams about Explosive bugs [tag includes all trend reports]

Bugzilla Tags

Those are used for the classification of Socorro bugs, all starting with "V3", and those will be documented here.

• V3-todo: Bugs that still need triage/classification
• V3-integrity: Affecting Crash Data Integrity, i.e. quality of the original data we have stored
• V3-search: Search Capabilities
• V3-classify: Classification and Characterization of Crash Reports and Signature Generation
• V3-correlation: Correlation reports to help identifying circumstances around the crash and steps to reproduce
• V3-trends: Trend Reports, e.g. to identify and alert teams about Explosive bugs
• V3-infra: Infrastructure and backend issues
• V3-UI: User Interface issues
• V3-notify: Notifications (to be) sent out by the Socorro system
• V3-config: Configuration adaptations (skiplist additions, etc.)
• V3-productization: Making Socorro a product that can be deployed and understood by others (documentation, etc.)

Comments From Socorro Users

<wsmwk> KaiRo: second tier needs might be bug 421119, bug 518823, bug 578376, bug 411354.  third tier: bug 527304, bug 512910, better workflow for updating skiplist)
<firebot> Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421119 min, P3, 2.1, nobody, NEW, function for socorro to compare stacks of two or more crash reports
<firebot> Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518823 enh, --, Future, nobody, NEW, indicate bug's status for bugzilla keyword topcrash
<firebot> Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578376 nor, --, ---, nobody, NEW, multiple crashes from a single person should have less weight then many crashes from different peopl
<firebot> Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411354 nor, P1, 2.0, nobody, REOP, Add ability to search by build ID
<firebot> Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527304 enh, --, ---, nobody, REOP, provide smart analysis ala talkback