Re: Dealing with bugzilla

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> Up until now, I have been the volunteer screener of networking related bugzilla bugs.
> I would like to get out of doing that.

Understandable, thanks for doing all the prefiltering work all these
years!

> The alternatives are:
>    1. Change the bugzilla forwarding to netdev@vger.kernel.org (ie no screening)

"OH NEIN !!!11"

>    2. Get a new volunteer to screen

Even if someone would volunteer I don't think it would be good to have
this burden on one person alone.

>    3. Make a new mailing list target on vger (ie netdev-bugs@vger.kernel.org)

I'd go for 3) and see how that works out.

>    4. Find someone to make a bot to use get_maintainer somehow to forward

I'd say 3, then see if it can be refined somehow.
3) would also allow to get an impression on the volume, the signal/noise ratio etc.

>    5. Blackhole the bugzilla reports.
>    6. Bounce all the bugzilla reports somehow.

5 & 6 are worse than 7), which would be to close bugzilla
and keep it readonly archive.