Hello Cockpit crew,
I am working on ABRT and I am the author of the 'org.freedesktop.Problems' support idea [1].
I would like to let you that we have developed a Cockpit module [2] showing problems detected by ABRT and allowing users to report them. The module is still rather a proof of concept (especially the reporting part) but we wanted to make you aware of its existence.
I have prepared a demonstration video: https://plus.google.com/106984072939419636032/posts/C95w9HZWCh6
and a Fedora COPR with the packages: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jfilak/cockpit-abrt-devel/
I know Cockpit development is driven by user stories but I didn't want to write a hypothetical case. Last week I got a lot of luck, because I found a crash of realmd [3] which was reproducible using Cockpit. So, here is our user story:
Charles King, an administrator at Czechlands, wants to add John's work station to Romanum Active Directory Domain. Charles logs in to Cockpit on John's work station, clicks the 'Join Domain' button, fills in required information and hits return. After a while, "Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying" error message appears. Charles tries to sort out the problem so he looks into the system logs and discovers a message about realmd crash. He opens "Tools" menu and goes to "Problems" item where he finds an entry for the crash. He reviews the data presented and decides to report the problem. The report reply includes a link to a Bugzilla bug which is already fixed. Charles updates John's box and successfully adds the box to Romanum domain.
The module uses some experimental work and it is definitely not production ready. However, we would love to hear any feedback from you before we spend too much time doing wrong things.
Kind regards, Jakub ABRT
1: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Ideas 2: https://github.com/abrt/cockpit-abrt/tree/problems2 3: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330766