Re: kernel bugzilla

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > We should encourage people to use bugzilla as the initial
> > entry-point.  But if someone instead uses email as the first contact I'm
> > just a little bit reluctant to say "thanks, now go and try again".
> > 
> > Perhaps we could find some nice volunteer (hint) who could take the task of
> > transferring such reports into bugzilla.
> 
> Andrew, I'm going to file
> 
> 	Subject: 2.6.12: connection tracking broken?
> 	Subject: 2.6.12 cpu-freq conservative governor problem
> 	Subject: PROBLEM: libata + sata_sil on sil3112 dosen't work proper
> 	Subject: [2.6.12] x86-64 IO-APIC + timer doesn't work
> 
> around monday evening if there would be no activity.

Sounds good, thanks - let us know how it goes.

It'll need to be coordinated with the reporter in some way.  It may end up
too confusing.

> Do I understand correctly that the procedure is
> 
> 	1. Search for duplicates
> 	2. Choose category
> 	3. Add "From: Joe Reporter <>" at the beginning, copy-paste email.
> 	4. Add Joe and relevant lists to CC.
> 	5. Profi^WCommit
> 
> and bugzilla won't shoot unsuspecting guys afterwards?

I think so.  I've never entered a bug ;)