I recently learnt of long-deprecated GNOME Bug Buddy. [1] It appeared to do what KDE’s Dr. Konqi does (or, in a distribution-agnostic way, do what Fedora’s GNOME Abrt does). [2] However, does GNOME still provide an automatic crash report wizard? The reason I ask is I’ve yet to see one which supports GitLab (despite its API being available).
No, GNOME does not have a bug reporting tool any more.
Submitting issues on the user’s behalf exposes the problems of scale when it comes to bug reports: you need a whole team to triage issues, close duplicates, and in general avoid dumping random issues into random project trackers—especially now that we have per-project issue trackers inside GitLab, as opposed to a single global issue tracker as in the Bugzilla days. Scaling is why we stopped using Bug Buddy nearly two decades ago.
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