Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

Willy Tarreau
2022-10-02T21:41:17Z

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 09:27:40PM +0000, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
> > Which is why in the general case, you really should consider email to
> > be the "lingua franca" of kernel development communication. It
> > doesn't have the fundamental limitations and management issues that
> > bugzilla has. If you want to add more people to the Cc in an email,
> > you just do it.
>
> Attention, Linus, the problem is attention.
>
> Once something is filed in bugzilla, it's public, it's easily
> accessible, it can easily be found, you can easily add new info.
>
> Emails? You've flown to Japan to a conference for a week and you have
> much better things than to check any email updates. A week worth of
> emails have suddenly become worthless.

Serious ? Have you ever attended a conference and looked over the
shoulder of the person in front of you ? There are 3 types of interfaces
you see:
- code
- slides
- mails

The last thing people will look at during a conference definitely is a
painfully depressive bugtracker interface. However they will see bug
reports in their mailbox as they happen to read emails from their boss
or customers.

> Here's yet another issue, how would you send a follow up if you don't
> know the reference ("References" email field)? Instead of a follow up
> it'll end up being a new unrelated email.

You don't have such a problem with email. It only happens when you try
to respond via e-mail to stuff you find in a browser.

Willy