From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754330AbXD2D3f (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:29:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754518AbXD2D3f (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:29:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:53606 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754330AbXD2D3d (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:29:33 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:28:49 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Message-Id: <20070428202849.2a506722.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20070426040806.GJ3468@stusta.de> <20070426125802.GL3468@stusta.de> <4630DB24.4030005@redhat.com> <20070426201325.8a1ebda3.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070426224148.69b91b2e.diegocg@gmail.com> <46339BC7.6050802@mbligh.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds 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.