From: Augusto César Radtke <radtke@conectiva.com>
To: "Jeremy M. Dolan" <jmd@foozle.turbogeek.org>
Cc: Matthias Juchem <juchem@uni-mannheim.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug reporting script? (was: removal of redundant line in documentation)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:40:27 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010106154027.A1461@conectiva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01010607054600.01947@gandalf> <20010106075402.A3377@foozle.turbogeek.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010106075402.A3377@foozle.turbogeek.org>; from jmd@foozle.turbogeek.org on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:54:02AM -0600
Jeremy M. Dolan wrote:
> If ver_linux can take off one of those steps, why not include a script
> which takes care of ALL the leg work? All of the files it asks the
> reporter to include are o+r...
>
> I can whip up a bug_report script to walk the user though all of the
> steps in REPORTING-BUGS, if the list isn't averse to 'dumbing down'
> the process to the point where maybe some people who shouldn't be
> submiting bugs (two words: 'user error') end up not being scared off
> by the process.
>
About bug reports, isn't a good thing introduce the sgi's lkcd (linux kernel crash dump) into the main stream of 2.5? The main problem of lkcd in 2.2 was the lack of kiobufs.
I think it as a good thing, for distributions, the distribution guys have the vmlinuz image of the distro, so when a bug happens the user only needs to send the crash dump to the distribution kernel hacker, and he can discuss the bug on lkml.
This introduce a new kind of bug reporter, if the distribution makes avalaible every new development kernel as a package, a user can download and use, crash and report the bug without any knowledge about kernel. So the marketing guys can say: 'help the development of linux without hacking, report bugs'.
Comments?
Augusto
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-06 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-06 5:51 [PATCHlet]: removal of redundant line in documentation Matthias Juchem
2001-01-06 13:54 ` Bug reporting script? (was: removal of redundant line in documentation) Jeremy M. Dolan
2001-01-06 12:33 ` Matthias Juchem
2001-01-08 23:45 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-10 19:05 ` Matthias Juchem
2001-01-11 8:58 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-06 17:40 ` Augusto César Radtke [this message]
2001-01-06 22:19 ` db
2001-01-07 1:21 ` Bug reporting script? Matthias Juchem
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