Bug clearing house

A computer-implemented system for managing software problem reports, the system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• and
• one or more computer-readable devices accessible by the computer processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computer processors, implement:
• a registration sub-system arranged to register a plurality of software application developers from multiple different developer organizations;
• an on-line application store that makes a plurality of applications that were provided to the on-line application store from the plurality of software application developers available for distribution to a plurality of computing devices that are remote from the computer server system and that are associated with a plurality of users, wherein the plurality of users and the multiple different developer organizations are independent from each other and independent from an organization that operates the on-line application store;
• an application bug tracker programmed to receive reports of problems with applications of the plurality of applications distributed using the on-line application store, to receive data regarding the problems, and to associate the data with a particular application of the plurality of applications or a particular software application developer of the particular application;
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• a report generator to produce one or more problem reports for a software application developer that has provided one or more applications of the plurality of applications, the one or more problem reports including information about the data regarding problems relating to particular applications, of the one or more applications, that were provided to the on-line application store by the software application developer,
• wherein the registration sub-system is further arranged to correlate, for one or more of the software application developers, an account of the software application developer with respective applications that were provided to the on-line application store by the software application developer.

One or more tangible, non-transitory recordable media having recorded thereon instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, perform operations comprising:

• distributing, from an on-line application store operating on a central server, a plurality of software applications to a plurality of computing devices that are remote from the central server and that are associated with a plurality of users, wherein the plurality of software applications were provided for distribution from the on-line application store by a plurality of software developers, the plurality of users and the plurality of software developers being independent from each other and being independent from an organization that operates the on-line application store;
• receiving, at the central server system, a plurality of software application problem reports from one or more particular computing devices of the plurality of computing devices;
• associating particular software application problem reports of the plurality of software application problem reports with particular software applications of the plurality of software applications;
• receiving identification information from particular software developers of the plurality of software developers;
• in response to receiving the identification information from the particular software developers, correlating applications distributed by the on-line application store that were provided by the particular software developers with respective accounts for the particular software developers;
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• providing, to one or more of the particular software developers, information describing one or more software application problem reports that were associated with respective software applications provided by the one or more particular software developers.