From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031412AbXD2UsI (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:48:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031423AbXD2UsH (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:48:07 -0400 Received: from mail.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:33483 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031412AbXD2UsG (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:48:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4635041F.10507@wpkg.org> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:46:23 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 Mandriva/1.5.0.8-1mdv2007.1 (2007.1) Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: >> Don't think that's true. There are plenty of projects who only >> accept bugs through bugzilla (mozilla, various distributions, etc.) >> and I don't see any evidence of your claim being true. > > That explains why my bugs don't get looked at for months if > not years when I submit them to such projects. > > I reported a bug that eats people's hard disks due to a bug > in the X.ORG PCI support code on sparc, NOBODY has fixed > the bug in 2 years even though a full bugzilla entry with > even a full patch fix is in there. And how fast was the bug fixed when you posted it to the X.ORG list? > Bugzilla sucks, emails rules because it is in your face and > gets people to work on things. Bugzilla can be configured to send emails, too (to the list for a newly reported bug for example). -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org