Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

David S. Miller
2002-11-15T21:28:28Z

From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:23:04 -0800

This is not an easy problem space, on the one hand you want to have all
bugs tracked, on the other hand, trivial bugs in the bug db just make
the bug db unusable. No engineer is going to put up with 100,000 stupid
bug reports. You need a plan to get rid of those or keep them out of
the bugdb or it's unlikely to get used by the people who really need to
use it.

Exactly.

It seems to me that only allowing one person to close a bug is going
to be the big bottleneck in a project like this. There is no reason
the community cannot close the bugs.

It isn't going to scale if it's just one person per category. That
simply won't work.

So with that taken care of, basically the database begins to
degenerate into a copy of linux-kernel with a nicer search engine :-)