Re: Linux 2.6.21

Andrew Morton
2007-04-29T03:29:35Z

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >
> > Go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org. Hit query. Find the box that says
> > "Bug Changes, Only bugs changed in the last __ days". Stick 7 in it.
> >
> > 74 bugs found.
> >
> > Not hard to do.
>
> And what part of the "directed" did you miss?
>
> Do you really expect me to go there every day to look at all bugs? That's
> nbot a bug tracker. That's just a noise-maker.
>
> It needs to be email, not some "mouse around for 30 seconds and type
> thing", and it needs to be *directed*. Preferably with somebody who
> actually did some manual scanning over it and spent a few minutes just
> looking at whether it looks like a worthy bug.
>
> In other words: we shouldn't have all developers wasting time doing this.

yup.

> It would be much better to have _one_ person (or a group of people) doing
> it,

I am doing that. It's only 5-10 a day - routing them to the relevant
culprit is very little work. It's also very little work for said culprits
to totally ignore said routing, which is a tougher problem.