Re: regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, 19 June 2007 02:28, Martin Bligh wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
> >> I'm seeing this long (198) thread and just have no idea how it has
> >> ended (wiki? hand-mailing?).
> > 
> > I'm hoping it's not "ended".
> > 
> > IOW, I really don't think we _resolved_ anything, although the work that 
> > Adrian started is continuing through the wiki and other people trying to 
> > track regressions, and that was obviously something good.
> > 
> > But I don't think we really know where we want to take this thing in the 
> > long run. I think everybody wants a better bug-tracking system, but 
> > whether something that makes people satisfied can even be built is open. 
> > It sure doesn't seem to exist right now ;)
> 
> I know you hate bugzilla ... but at least I can try to make that bit
> of the process work better.
> 
> The new version just rolled out does have a simple "regression" checkbox
> (and you can search on it), which will hopefully help people keep track
> of the ones already in bugzilla more easily.
> 
> Thanks to Jon T, Dave J et al. for helping to figure out methods and
> implement them.

Yes, good work, thanks a lot for it!  The new interface is much better and more
useful.

Greetings,
Rafael


PS
BTW, would that be possible to create the "Hibernation/Suspend" subcategory
of "Power Management" that I asked for some time ago, please? :-)

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