From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261571AbULFRTJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:19:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261580AbULFRTI (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:19:08 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34763 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261571AbULFRSc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:18:32 -0500 Subject: Re: The bugzilla story From: Alan Cox To: Alexander Nyberg Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , zwane@holomorphy.com, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <1102350405.727.79.camel@boxen> References: <1102342960.727.59.camel@boxen> <476570000.1102346931@[10.10.2.4]> <1102350405.727.79.camel@boxen> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1102349678.14484.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:14:44 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2004-12-06 at 16:26, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > The thing is that -mm changes so fast that a bug reported can be solved > an hour later, leaving a stale bug report for a few days (or years). > Whoever wants to pick up the bug quite much has to mail either the > bug-submitter asking if the bug has been resolved, mail the maintainer > of whatever area the bug concerns or mail akpm. > > This leads me to thinking that bugzilla doesn't serve any functionality > for at least -mm. Sometimes they do - for looking back and finding when a problem came in, or for spotting common patterns. They are less useful but not of no use