From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:34:42 +0000 Subject: Re: Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla Message-Id: <20050902223442.GB3657@stusta.de> List-Id: References: <20050901002932.GB3766@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050901002932.GB3766@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:48:31PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Adrian Bunk > 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed