From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754415AbXD2Sza (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:55:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754418AbXD2Sza (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:55:30 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:38391 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754415AbXD2Sz3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:55:29 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:59:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20070426224148.69b91b2e.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070429180909.GA30604@one.firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <20070429180909.GA30604@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704292059.48563.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:09, Andi Kleen wrote: > > - a lot of reporters will not use bugzilla, because it's damn > > inconvenient even for reporting. If you propose something that uses > > Don't think that's true. There are plenty of projects who only > accept bugs through bugzilla (mozilla, various distributions, etc.) > and I don't see any evidence of your claim being true. > > Sure there will be always people who cannot be bothered > to use any kind of interface for bugs, but then > these are unlikely to stay on board during a longer > remote debugging q'n'a session either. So those people > can be just ignored; they essentially don't exist in > the bug report universe. > > Anyways it only works if people are willing to use it too and there > are enough people who maintain bugs (aka ask questions to find out > who to reassign, prune old bugs etc.) If that's not there then > it won't work well obviously, like it is currently the case. > > I don't think the "keep it in Andrew's/Adrian's head" method > is going to scale longer term at least (and one of them has > already thrown in the towel) > > The "send it to a gigantic mailing list and hope someone catches > it" method also doesn't seem to be that great. At least there > are lots of lost reports in my experience this way. This, actually, might work if the report is 'flagged' in a specific way. For example, if there's a message sent to LKML with a combination of '[BUG]' and 'suspend' in the subject, I have no problems whatsoever with spotting it. ;-) Greetings, Rafael