Re: Dealing with bugzilla

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:17:09 +0200
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > Up until now, I have been the volunteer screener of networking related bugzilla bugs.
> > I would like to get out of doing that.  
> 
> Understandable, thanks for doing all the prefiltering work all these
> years!
> 
> > The alternatives are:
> >    1. Change the bugzilla forwarding to netdev@vger.kernel.org (ie no screening)  
> 
> "OH NEIN !!!11"
> 
> >    2. Get a new volunteer to screen  
> 
> Even if someone would volunteer I don't think it would be good to have
> this burden on one person alone.
> 
> >    3. Make a new mailing list target on vger (ie netdev-bugs@vger.kernel.org)  
> 
> I'd go for 3) and see how that works out.
> 
> >    4. Find someone to make a bot to use get_maintainer somehow to forward  
> 
> I'd say 3, then see if it can be refined somehow.
> 3) would also allow to get an impression on the volume, the signal/noise ratio etc.
> 
> >    5. Blackhole the bugzilla reports.
> >    6. Bounce all the bugzilla reports somehow.  
> 
> 5 & 6 are worse than 7), which would be to close bugzilla
> and keep it readonly archive.

Volume is about 1 report every 2 weeks with about 10% dropped.
Most of the drops are because the report is for an vendor kernel which is tainted
or end of life.