[PATCH] traceback: allow disabling the third party extensions blaming

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 12:58 -0700, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at fb.com>
> # Date 1442000719 25200
> #      Fri Sep 11 12:45:19 2015 -0700
> # Node ID f4cac314b745109687b94808f8802b65b39f2dc9
> # Parent  ea489d94e1dc1fc3dc1dcbef1c86c18c49605ed1
> traceback: allow disabling the third party extensions blaming
> 
> The extensions blaming code is fine for casual users but pretty terrible for
> corporate environments that use a large amount of extensions. For example, all
> reports we get from my users always blame crecord, who is never guilty.

But it *is* guilty. In particular, it is guilty of being unmaintained
and never setting the tested-with field that would take it off the
probably-broken list.

>  This
> confused users and triggers endless debug attempts from them.

You've mistaken this code for a debugging aide. That is not its intent
at all. Instead, it exists to reduce the flow of bug reports for
third-party extensions that waste the project's scarce time.

Ironically, the original primary offender here was Sun developers, who
sent us a steady stream of bizarre reports related to their cadmium
extension. I do not want to see a steady stream of remotefilelog reports
on our BTS from the company that took over their campus.

Instead, write a patch that allows site installs to redirect all bug
reports to their own support contact. That's a feature we can document.

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