From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161584AbXD2X4B (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:56:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161598AbXD2X4B (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:56:01 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:34622 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161584AbXD2Xz7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:55:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:55:35 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Message-ID: <20070429235535.GC19937@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <4630DB24.4030005@redhat.com> <20070426201325.8a1ebda3.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070426224148.69b91b2e.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070428195320.GZ3468@stusta.de> <20070428202701.GA30343@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070428224904.GE3468@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:15:42PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > This means we need people who figure out who to assign bugs too. > Aka bugmasters. > > BTW one big problem in our current bugzilla is that a lot of people > cannot reassign bugs they don't own. I sometimes see bugs that I don't > own bug I know who is responsible, but bugzilla doesn't allow me to do it. > > So I think what would help: > > - Ask more people to just categorize and reassign bugs (anybody interested?) > - Give more people in bugzilla the power to reassign arbitary bugs > (bugzilla maintainers would need to do that) Folks might want to take a look at the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS). It has a web interface which you can use to query history, but *everything* is e-mail driven, and the way you submit, close, update, tag/classfy bugs --- everything --- is via e-mail. More importantly, anyone is allowed to recategorize and reassign bugs. If someone does so maliciously or incorrectly, you can always revert it, and if someone is being truly malicious, you can always blacklist that one person. It this respect, it is far more wiki-like than bugzilla, which has always been too much like a straightjacket. It's not perfect, but it's better than bugzilla --- but then again, just about *anything* would be better than bugzilla. (Hmm, except maybe SourceForge's very tragic bug tracking system... :-) Of course, as Linus has said, it's not a complete solution --- you still need humans to be smart about things --- but if the goal is to make it easier to archive and track information about a bug, at *least* with the Debian BTS, when you reply to an e-mail message, the reply is automatically appended to the bug log! - Ted