Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

Linus Torvalds
2007-06-22T00:01:37Z

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >...
> > This is why I've been advocating bugzilla "forget" stuff, for example. I
> > tend to see bugzilla as a place where noise accumulates, rather than a
> > place where noise is made into a signal.
> >
> > Which gets my to the real issue I have: the notion of having a process for
> > _tracking_ all the information is actually totally counter-productive, if
> > a big part of the process isn't also about throwing noise away.
> >
> > We don't want to "save" all the crud. I don't want "smart tracking" to
> > keep track of everything. I want "smart forgetting", so that we are only
> > left with the major signal - the stuff that matters.
>
> Even generating the perfect signal is a complete waste of time if
> there's no recipient for the signal...

My argument is that *if* we had "more signal, less noise", we'd probably
get more people looking at it.

In fact, I guarantee that's the case. You may not be 100% happy with the
regression list, but every single maintainer/developer I've talked to has
said they appreciated it and it made it easier (and thus more likely) for
them to actually look at what the outstanding issues were.

Linus