Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs

Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-02T17:49:18Z

On Friday, 2 of May 2008, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> On Friday 02 May 2008 13:30:23 Parag Warudkar wrote:
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>
> > wrote: This is what Adrian was pointing
> >
> > > ... out and is exactly what shouldn't be happening.
> >
> > I wasn't arguing that it is what should be happening - I was just
> > pointing out that there are worse things than that routinely happen in
> > distro bugzillas!
>
> I have to admit that this is the truth. I've seen it myself. (Hell, I won't
> touch a bug-tracking system for that reason.)
>
> > Also I feel that if maintainer refuse to fix something - that's a dead
> > end as far as that particular bug is considered. We can try and track
> > such bugs in different STATUS but there would have to be people
> > interested in digging through such bugs and willing to fix it after
> > the maintainer has given up. Which is possible but not likely.
> >
> > Parag
>
> And I have to agree here. But there should be something that can be done
> to "coax" the maintainers that pull that kind of immature crap into acting
> mature and responsible.

Well, how exactly would you want to do that?

Rafael