From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161625AbXD3AeV (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:34:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161629AbXD3AeV (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:34:21 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40370 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161625AbXD3AeT (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:34:19 -0400 To: Theodore Tso Cc: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 References: <4630DB24.4030005@redhat.com> <20070426201325.8a1ebda3.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070426224148.69b91b2e.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070428195320.GZ3468@stusta.de> <20070428202701.GA30343@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070428224904.GE3468@stusta.de> <20070429235535.GC19937@thunk.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 30 Apr 2007 03:31:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070429235535.GC19937@thunk.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Theodore Tso writes: > > Folks might want to take a look at the Debian Bug Tracking System > (BTS). It has a web interface which you can use to query history, but > *everything* is e-mail driven, and the way you submit, close, update, > tag/classfy bugs --- everything --- is via e-mail. Bugzilla can do that too. But I'm not convinced this is a good idea. We had this some years ago with the jitterbug experiment and usually it tended to faithfully keep track of very long off topic threads that had drifted long from the original bug. The resulting collections of emails usually not very useful. While other interfaces might be a culture shock for some people at least they force them to concentrate on the particular issue -- contribute to a specific bug. -Andi