1306013 - Can we give startup crashes their own column in crash_aggregates?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Data Platform and Tools Graveyard :: Datasets: Crash Aggregates, defect)

Description

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Of particular interest to release management is the specific type of crash known as "startup crash" where the crash occurs before Firefox can start.

Presently there's no way to tell how many app crashes in crash_aggregates are startup crashes. Could we give them their own column to say "_THIS_ many of the browser crashes are startup crashes"?

Comment 1

[Mauro Doglio [:mdoglio]]

:chutten is this 'startup crash' value available anywhere in either main or crash pings?

Comment 2

[Chris H-C :chutten]

According to [1] the crash pings should be annotated with "StartupCrash".

[1]: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/crashreporter/nsExceptionHandler.cpp#189

Comment 3

[Mauro Doglio [:mdoglio]]

Cool, I'm make some room for it in the Q4 plan if this is not super urgent.

Comment 4

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Should be fine.

Comment 5

[Mauro Doglio [:mdoglio]]

Sorry this went out of my radar last quarter. I'll have a look this week.

Comment 6

[GitHub Autolander Bot]

Attachment: [telemetry-batch-view] mozilla:bug-1306013-add-startup-crashes > mozilla:master

Comment 7

[Mark Reid [:mreid]]

:chutten is this still needed?

Comment 8

[Chris H-C :chutten]

That is a good question, :mreid. I'm not sure. I haven't heard anyone asking for this specificity of data since moving teams shortly after filing this bug, yet the code in the attached PR is partially correct so it seems a waste to drop it on the floor.

I will err on the side of closing in this instance, as if someone actually needed it we would've heard about it. I'll also close down the PR.

Comment 9

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Err... apparently mauro already closed the PR a few months back. :S