Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

Eric Northup
2002-11-15T02:47:16Z

On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:35 pm, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > I DO NOT want to be working on bugs on anything other than Linus's
> > actualy sources. The first bug I got was a networking bug with
> > Andrew Morton's -mm patches applied.
[snip
> Hmmm ... I'm not sure that being that restrictive is going to help.
> Whilst bugs against any randomly patched version of the kernel
> probably aren't that interesting, things in major trees like -mm,
> -ac, -dj etc are likely going to end up in mainline sooner or later
> anyway ... wouldn't you rather know of the breakage sooner rather
> than later?

Would this be an appropriate use of the "version" tag in Bugzilla? Currently
the only choice is "2.5", but if that were renamed to "2.5-linus", then the
other heavily used patchsets could be monitored while making it easy for
people who only want to see bugs in Linus' tree.

-Eric