Debugging a problem over emailircBTS is slow, tedious, and hard. The developer
needs to see your problem to understand it. Debug-me aims to make debugging
fast, fun, and easy, by letting the developer access your computer remotely,
so they can immediately see and interact with the problem. Making your
problem their problem gets it fixed fast.
A debug-me session is logged and signed with the developer's GnuPG
key, producing a chain of evidence of what they saw and what they did.
So the developer's good reputation is leveraged to make debug-me secure.
If you trust a developer to ship software to your computer,
you can trust them to debug-me.
When you start debug-me without any options, it will connect to a debug-me
server, and print out an url that you can give to the developer to get
them connected to you. Then debug-me will show you their GnuPG key and who
has signed it, and will let you know if they are a known developer
of software on your computer. If the developer has a good reputation,
you can proceed to let them type into your console in a debug-me session.
Once the session is done, the debug-me server will email you the signed
evidence of what the developer did in the session.
If the developer did do something bad, you'd have proof that they cannot
be trusted, which you can share with the world. Knowing that is the case
will keep most developers honest.