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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	zwane@holomorphy.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: The bugzilla story
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:14:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102349678.14484.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102350405.727.79.camel@boxen>

On Llu, 2004-12-06 at 16:26, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> The thing is that -mm changes so fast that a bug reported can be solved
> an hour later, leaving a stale bug report for a few days (or years).
> Whoever wants to pick up the bug quite much has to mail either the
> bug-submitter asking if the bug has been resolved, mail the maintainer
> of whatever area the bug concerns or mail akpm. 
> 
> This leads me to thinking that bugzilla doesn't serve any functionality
> for at least -mm.

Sometimes they do - for looking back and finding when a problem came in,
or for spotting common patterns. They are less useful but not of no use


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-06 14:22 The bugzilla story Alexander Nyberg
2004-12-06 15:03 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-06 15:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-12-06 16:26   ` Alexander Nyberg
2004-12-06 16:14     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-12-06 23:15       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-12-08  1:14 ` Jeff Garzik

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