Re: Dedicated kernel bug database

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>]

> Not sure what you mean.  I do intend to start coding a new bug
> database system today, and I'll announce it on the list when it's
> ready.  If nobody likes it, I wasted my time.

That's basically what I meant ... try coding it and see. My wierd
Anglicisms in forms of speech ...

>> Have you actually looked at the maintainers file?
>
> Yes.
>
>> It's a twisted mess of outdated information,
>
> Then it should be updated, that is nothing to do with Bugzilla.

Right. But I wasn't interested in doing that. And code maintainers
won't necessarily want to be bug database maintainers (though I did
get a suprising number of people to sign up).

>> The category list in Bugzilla was an attempt to bring some sanity to
>> the structure,
>
> By adding an extra layer of abstraction.  I don't agree that that
> helps.

Well, I guess we differ on that then.

>> though I won't claim it's perfect. We really need a 3-level tree,
>> but that's a fair amount of work to code.
>
> I disagree, (that we need a 3-level tree).

We don't *need* one, it'd be nice though.

M.