Issue Notification Service
The Issue Notification Service allows Ubuntu maintainers to push "issue tests" - small bits of code that check a user's system for a given situation - out to user desktops using a web service. When the issue tests run on a system that meets their internal criteria, they use notification-daemon to display a message describing the situation to the user, and linking to a web page with further information and/or recommended fixes. Statistics on affected users are returned to the web service in an anonymous form. For example, a user installs a non-free video driver; an 'issue test' scriptlet detects this; the user receives a notification informing them of the problems associated with non-free drivers, and is offered a link to a Wiki page with more information; the 'installed non-free driver' stat is incremented back at the web server. This specification could supersede binary-
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Gabriel Bauman
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
- Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Gabriel Bauman
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This is the result of a UDS braindump in "Binary Driver Education" via gobby.