Re: slowly decommission bugzilla? (was: Re: kernel.org tooling update)

James Bottomley
2026-02-27T17:07:31Z

On Fri, 2026-02-27 at 17:29 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 05:22:18PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > > Von: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > > > > I just told them to randomly modify the file, do a git diff
> > > > > and redirect it into another file (making a random patch),
> > > > > and run get_maintainers.pl on it. That's a big hack and
> > > > > having a better interface to point others too would be
> > > > > useful.
> > > >
> > > > I'm pretty sure someone can vibe code us a neat webinterface
> > > > which queries get_maintainers.pl in the background.
> > >
> > > ... including a big fat message wrapped in a <BLINK> tag, which
> > > suggests to check manually if a few addresses should be dropped?
> > >
> > > Or perhaps this should be restricted to return mailing lists
> > > only?
> >
> > Sure.
> > What I have in mind is something like a web interface where you
> > enter either the source file, module name, heck even a stack trace
> > or a BUG/WARN_ON/Oops and the interface gives an advice how to mail
> > to which mailing list. E.g. what information to include, how to
> > send plain text mail, etc...
>
> Oh, with these modern AI tools, you could even make that phone based
> and accept screen shots... /me runs for the hills.

Many a true word and all that ...

You know, it shouldn't be beyond the wit of Claude, with suitable
prompts of course, to guide a novice through gathering enough
information to actually send a bug report. The ability to translate
screenshots to text dumps would only be one advantage, it should also
be able to identify the place in the kernel it occurred and compose an
email to the correct lists. We probably don't want to add AI agents on
kernel.org pages, but it's perfectly possible to point to a git repo
like the review-prompts one where all the precursors get setup (it
would probably have to have an easy tar file download, but
git.kernel.org can do that).

Regards,

James