explain what the "Report an incident" button does

[zooko]

The "Report an incident" button on the welcome page could have a hyperlink named "What does this do?" next to it which takes you to page that describes what it does. Who will receive the incident report? What does the report contain?

[warner]

Yeah. I dunno if this should point to a static internally-generated tahoe page (some sort of /help/incident.html), or a static page in tahoe's public_html directory (which would require tahoe create-client to mkdir and copy some files in there), or a static page on foolscap.lothar.com (the Foolscap home page, which is where the Incident handling code comes from).

Some information that could go on this page:

• "Incident Reports" contain a compressed log of recent activity, usually about 25kB
• The reports are written to a file in NODEDIR/logs/incidents/
• If an "Incident Gatherer" is configured (in tahoe.cfg) and connected, the gatherer will be given a copy of the incident report
• "flogtool" (from the Foolscap distribution) is a tool which can be used to examine incident files.

[Lcstyle]

fantastic suggestion. would like to try a fix.