From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964881AbWAQXL4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:11:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964882AbWAQXLz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:11:55 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:46603 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964881AbWAQXLz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:11:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:11:53 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bug tracking Message-ID: <20060117231153.GG19398@stusta.de> References: <20060117224433.GF19398@stusta.de> <20060117150612.345571ef.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060117150612.345571ef.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:06:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > c) Privately email the reporter, saying "if this bug is still present in > 2.6.15, please raise a report at bugzilla.kernel.org" > > I've sent 100-200 of these emails in the past few days. Of the people > who've responded, the great majority of these bugs were actually fixed, which > is nice. >... Private emails have the disadvantage that noone else sees them. Does this imply that it can be assumed that you are tracking all unresolved bug reports sent to linux-kernel until they are either resolved or in Bugzilla? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed