From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261223AbVFTMBO (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:01:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261221AbVFTL6j (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:58:39 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60905 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261211AbVFTL6R (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:58:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:58:10 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Dave Jones Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel bugzilla In-Reply-To: <20050618191341.GA30620@redhat.com> References: <20050617001330.294950ac.akpm@osdl.org> <1119016223.5049.3.camel@mulgrave> <20050617142225.GO6957@suse.de> <20050617141003.2abdd8e5.akpm@osdl.org> <20050617212338.GA16852@suse.de> <491950000.1119044739@flay> <20050618191341.GA30620@redhat.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta18) (chestnut) (+CVS-20041021) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:13:41 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > One of the problems faced by bug-reporters sometimes is that with > the multitude of bugzillas out there, and no cooperation between > them all, they don't know where to file their bug. > "My sound driver blew up, where do I file a bug" > bugzilla.redhat.com? bugme.osdl.org ? (in fact, I think the ALSA > folks have their own bugzilla if memory serves correctly) > [This demonstrates the problem -- even _I_ don't know, and I get a fair > amount of alsa bug reports from end-users] Yes, we have Mantis as own bugtracking system: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/ I fully agree with Dave. There are too many bugzillas, and developers can't cover all of them, too. It'd be nice if these (exported) bugzilla systems can notify to the corresponding devel ML, e.g. alsa-devel in the case of ALSA, so that the reports surely reach to developers. Takashi