pre-install logcat capturing App

Summary

pre-install a logcat capturing App with appropriate permission (READ_LOGS) to ease making useful reports on app incompatabilities and crashes with logs or stacktraces. It will come at the cost of very few megabytes.

Publish an doc.e.foundation article that guide users making reports with stacktraces.

Description

Guiding users to make more useful bug reports is easier if the software to do so is pre-installed.

The microG issue report template asks for relevant logcat lines and/or stacktraces.

There's at least two contenders, logfox (4MB) and logcat reader (6MB), both offer GUI selection of appid to filter for and setting loglevels (warning, error).

Here's a forum HOWTO entry on LogFox usage. The intro instructions are obsoleted by a pre-installed logcat reader.

Related

Adjacent to pre-installed stacktrace capturing software is a user-friendly way to upload a log and create a report.

Currently, creating a gitlab account is a point of friction. Being able to use a murena-ID or forum account could make this easier, up to an API that accepts incompatibility logs. With Sapio there exists a programmatic app compatibility report outlet. The existing Sentry instance for /e/ telemetry is another option to accept opt-in crash logs.