From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:32:03 -0700 Received: from noose.gt.owl.de ([62.52.19.4]:61447 "HELO noose.gt.owl.de") by oss.sgi.com with SMTP id ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:31:38 -0700 Received: by noose.gt.owl.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 26D2F7DD; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by paradigm.rfc822.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1ECFC900C; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:30:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:30:13 +0200 From: Florian Lohoff To: Klaus Naumann Cc: Linux/MIPS list , "Linux MIPS fnet.fr" Subject: Re: Bug Tracker online Message-ID: <20001022123012.A1564@paradigm.rfc822.org> References: <20001021202159.A3619@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from spock@mgnet.de on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:04:27AM +0200 Organization: rfc822 - pure communication Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:04:27AM +0200, Klaus Naumann wrote: > Actually writing the bug tracker wasn't an act of boredom > (if you meant it that way). I had the strong feeling that we have No - I didnt think of it that way ... > > The one sending these reports has to give possible additional > > hints on what he did/patch/change to get it to work. So probabably > > we will than be able to keep track on which kernel versions > > worked on which machines. > > This is indeed a interesting idea. Writing it wouldn't be a big deal. > But the question is if it's worth writing it. First we would need > some ppl which actally send the info somewhere - I'm pretty > much in doubt, that we will find enough so that it rents. > Second question is if ppl are actually interested in such a thing. > I'll not again waste time writing something where I don't get at least a > small ammount of feedback and which noone is using. Right - I just thought as a feedback for the kernel cvs commits the other way round that you implemented - Sometimes (most of the time ?) bugs keep not found because noone is using some specific feature (Like the Timeing stuff in the decstations) and though a lot of people simply think its their fault instead of complaining - But with something like that and possibly a simple shell script we yould collect not negative but positive information on WHAT is actually working. Nevertheless this only works for a small subset of the mips stuff (kernel) and though might be pretty useless as most of the kernel stuff works and userspace is getting the problem. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 "Write only memory - Oops. Time for my medication again ..."