Re: Talkback builds - are they any use?

Thomas Ditmars wrote on 21 Dec 03 01:33:

> Charlie Cook wrote on 18 Dec 03 04:42:
> 
>> I don't know if it's even worth asking here, but: do the talkback 
>> builds provide worthwhile data?
>> 
>> I also notice that they only seem to exist for the pre-release 
>> versions of Mozilla. Why not have a talkback build for the current
>>  stable version(1.5) ? The crashes which come from those are 
>> undoubtedly the most difficult to track down - or else due to 
>> hardware, etc.
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry about the lack of email address, but in view of all the 
>> nonsense in this group...
> 
> I forget where I read it, but here's the (un-?)official story as I 
> understand it:
> 
> The old Talkback servers were located on the group set aside for 
> Netscape, by AOL. As of a while ago, Mozilla no longer has access to 
> those servers, because AOL dissolved it's Netscape division, and
> those servers were not part of the agreement between AOL and the
> Mozilla Foundation.
> 
> Until new servers can be set up for Talkback by Mozilla or a donator,
> the Talkback capability of Mozilla has been removed.

Follow-up, since I just read the December 15 staff meeting notes. From
Gerv's writeup
(<http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>):

> *Talkback*
> 
> - Talkback collector machine arrives Xmas week or the week after
> - We have two database servers already in the rack
> - It'll be six machines in total

Hope this is useful to you!
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