Re: kernel bugzilla

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 18 June 2005 22:23, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Craaap.

"The name <mailing list> is not a valid username. Either you misspelled it,
or the person has not registered for a Bugzilla account."

Same for Joe Reporter. :-(

> > 	5. Profi^WCommit
> > 
> > and bugzilla won't shoot unsuspecting guys afterwards?
> 
> I think so.  I've never entered a bug ;)