Re: slowly decommission bugzilla?

Thorsten Leemhuis
2026-02-28T13:42:24Z

On 2/27/26 17:22, 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,

Well, regular users reporting a bug usually don't deal with source files
and might not even have an idea how to get from a module name to source
files. For kernel developers it's obviously different, but those most
likely have the source tree lying around already and thus can run
scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f directly. So support for source files
doesn't help that much, I'd say (but of course it would be "nice to
have", too).

> module name,

This, on the other hand, would help quite a few people.

Also, broad categories with optional, more fine-graded subcategories
would be nice for some areas. Like mm, which has 18 entries in
MAINTAINERS that start with "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - ", which confuses
people that do not know "if in doubt, just use the entry for MEMORY
MANAGEMENT"

> heck even a stack trace or a BUG/WARN_ON/Oops

This even more (but of course this is harder)

> 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...

Yeah. But unless somebody volunteers to realize this within a few weeks,
I'd say: Let's finally first reduce the immediate problem (users
reporting bugs to a place where they might not even reach the
developers) by putting a new welcome page on bugzilla.kernel.org in place.

Ciao, Thorsten