Re: kernel.org tooling update

Lukas Wunner
2025-12-16T16:31:43Z

[cc += Bjorn, start of thread is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/20251209-roaring-hidden-alligator-068eea@lemur/
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 11:48:24PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> ### Bugzilla
>
> It may be time to kill bugzilla:
>
> - despite periodic "we're not dead yet" emails, it doesn't appear very
> active
> - the upgrade path to 6.0 is broken for us due to bugzilla abandoning the
> 5.2 development branch and continuing with 5.1
> - question remains with what to replace bugzilla, but it's a longer
> discussion topic that I don't want to raise here; it may be a job for
> the bugspray bot that can extend the two-way bridge functionality to
> multiple bug tracker frameworks

The PCI subsystem relies heavily on bugzilla to track issues,
collect dmesg/lspci output from reporters and furnish them with
debug or test patches.

The SOP when issues are reported on the mailing list without
sufficient information is to ask the reporter to open a bugzilla
issue and attach full dmesg and lspci -vvv output for analysis.

If bugzilla is deprecated, we'll need at least a way to exchange
files with reporters. Preferably on kernel.org infrastructure
to be independent from 3rd parties. A way to communicate with
reporters outside the mailing list is also useful to prevent
spamming linux-pci@vger.kernel.org with messages relevant only
to a single issue or system.

All the information now recorded in bugzilla should continue
to be available indefinitely so that Link: tags in commits
continue to work. It's not uncommon to have to dig in old
bugzilla entries in order to understand the motivation for
a particular code section that was introduced years earlier.

Thanks,

Lukas