From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755477AbXKYOCb (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:02:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752770AbXKYOCX (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:02:23 -0500 Received: from mail.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:44215 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752031AbXKYOCX (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:02:23 -0500 Message-ID: <47498065.5070203@wpkg.org> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:02:13 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 Mandriva/1.5.0.8-1mdv2007.1 (2007.1) Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Re: kernel bugzilla is FPOS (was: Re: "buggy cmd640" message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: (...) >> * After each major kernel release bugzilla should send a kind request for >> retesting to all open bugs. > > Good idea, IMO. Another alternative would be to send such a request if a given bug had no activity for, say, 6 months. (...) >> * Last but not least our bugzilla just looks ugly (it is _very_ important, >> I feel disgusted each time I have to work with it, OTOH I love using >> gitweb - you get the idea). > > Well, that doesn't matter to me as long as it's useful. Any ideas how to > improve that? ;-) Upgrade to Bugzilla 3.0.x. Its interface looks a bit better (and has a handful of useful features). (...) >> Hmm, what about switching to some proprietary bug tracking system just to >> talk Linus into writing a superior one? ;-) > > I think that we just have to get an idea of what exactly is needed. IOW, we > need to know exactly how we're going to handle bugs as much as we needed > to know exactly how we were going the handle the flow of changes. > Perhaps it would be necessary to use a proprietary bug tracking system for some > time for this purpose, but _maybe_ we can figure it out without anything like > that. How do others track bugs for software projects? RedHat, Novell, IBM, others - anyone reading this thread? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org