Re: Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:48:31PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:34:01 +0200
> 
> > May I ask why?
> 
> Because I shouldn't have to spend time on some bugzilla web site just
> to work on some bug.  The bugs should come to me, by being reported to
> the appropriate mailing list, I shouldn't have to seek them.
> 
> The kernel bugzilla exists only to make some bean counters at some
> corporations happy that there is some place to track kernel bugs.  But
> this is wholly incompatible with how upstream kernel development
> works.  The kernel bugzilla database would never have been created
> with the sole impetus of the core kernel folks, that's simply not how
> we work.

At least recently, Andrew is extensively using the Bugzilla.

> That is why.
> 
> Sending bugzilla reports directly to the list is not the answer.
> That means a lot of garbage ends up on the list, so if anything
> it should either:
> 
> 1) get forwarded by hand by someone willing to volunteer to
>    filter out the crap

OK, I'll start with forwarding the current sparc64 bugs (no, I won't 
forward unfiltered crap).

> 2) get sent directly to the right mailing list in the first
>    place, bypassing the kernel bugzilla altogether
> 
> The latter is what happens in practice for sparc stuff.

cu
Adrian

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