Re: Linux 2.6.21

Adrian Bunk
2007-04-29T22:09:18Z

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:27:56PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:05:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:40:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >...
> > > What's the difference between bugzilla and lkml.org? Both have search
> > > buttons. Both archive the old stuff. Both can be pointed to.
> >
> > Mailing lists don't track bugs.
>
> There's no reason they can't. Store them in folders 'fixed' 'pending'
> 'notabug' etc. Move mails between them when states change.
> reply-to them when necessary. Bounce them. Add people to Ccs. etc. etc.
>
> The only remaining piece of the puzzle is "how does everyone see the
> states of the various pools", which could be solved in a number of
> ways, daily uploads to a place on kernel org for eg.
>
> Hell, you could store them in a git tree if it came to it.
> That would also solve the problem for those with an aversion
> to web browsers to see bugs :-)

That would be an implementation of a git based bug tracker. :-)

> Dave

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Adrian

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