Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> >The bugs assigned to me are all in the 'open' state, with no
> >obvious way to change them to 'assigned'.
>
>
> There's a radio button just below the additional comments box,
> "Accept bug (change status to ASSIGNED)". Then hit Commit.


That would be the obvious way, but that option is not presented to me :)
Look at http://gtf.org/garzik/misc/Screenshot.png  ;-)

Tangent:  Red Hat's bugzilla has a 'NEEDINFO' status which is quite 
useful too.


> >>Also, the bug owner can close MULTIPLE bugs at the same time
> >>on Bugzilla.  A bug owner can query all of his bugs which will
> >>then be displayed in a list, click the option "Change several bugs
> >>at once" at the bottom of the list, select the bugs that he wants
> >>to close, and then hit Commit button.  It's pretty simple.  Besides
> >>closing the bugs, the owner can make similar changes to several bugs
> >>at the same time using the same mechanism.
> >
> >The basic point still stands, though, that if the bug owner must 
> close multiple bugs at once, they are likely clearing out garbage and 
> that each individual bug is not necessarily unique or valid...
>
>
> If it gets onerous in terms of numbers of bugs filed, we can get people
> to prefilter them. I think that things will calm down in a week or so,
> but if you want, I can find someone to do that for network drivers.


I'm willing to wait and see how things settle out in a few weeks.  I 
doubt it will be a huge problem for me personally, but as we see on the 
mailing lists already, there are plenty of bogus net stack bug reports 
[I know, I posted one just today and got corrected by Alexey].  I forsee 
David having a much bigger problem with potential bugzilla-related grunt 
work...

If you think back to what I first proposed, the original idea was to 
minimize the grunt work on kernel developers so we could focus on 
solving the tough problems :)  As I said back then, that definitely 
implies some useful help from staff and community to keep the bug 
database clean.  I think Andi Kleen mentioned that Mozilla project has 
bugs begin life as pre-screened... I think that's a pretty good model. 
Since you pointed out that Bugzilla supports that model from a technical 
standpoint, all we need are the pre-screeners to help us out... :)

	Jeff