Re: Linux 2.6.21

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-29T18:55:30Z

On Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:09, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > - a lot of reporters will not use bugzilla, because it's damn
> > inconvenient even for reporting. If you propose something that uses
>
> Don't think that's true. There are plenty of projects who only
> accept bugs through bugzilla (mozilla, various distributions, etc.)
> and I don't see any evidence of your claim being true.
>
> Sure there will be always people who cannot be bothered
> to use any kind of interface for bugs, but then
> these are unlikely to stay on board during a longer
> remote debugging q'n'a session either. So those people
> can be just ignored; they essentially don't exist in
> the bug report universe.
>
> Anyways it only works if people are willing to use it too and there
> are enough people who maintain bugs (aka ask questions to find out
> who to reassign, prune old bugs etc.) If that's not there then
> it won't work well obviously, like it is currently the case.
>
> I don't think the "keep it in Andrew's/Adrian's head" method
> is going to scale longer term at least (and one of them has
> already thrown in the towel)
>
> The "send it to a gigantic mailing list and hope someone catches
> it" method also doesn't seem to be that great. At least there
> are lots of lost reports in my experience this way.

This, actually, might work if the report is 'flagged' in a specific way.

For example, if there's a message sent to LKML with a combination of '[BUG]'
and 'suspend' in the subject, I have no problems whatsoever with spotting it. ;-)

Greetings,
Rafael