From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:54:26 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3EFCBD12.3070101@candelatech.com> References: <20030626.224739.88478624.davem@redhat.com> <21740000.1056724453@[10.10.2.4]> <20030627.143738.41641928.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davidel@xmailserver.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030627.143738.41641928.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > From: Davide Libenzi > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:56:16 -0700 (PDT) > > The good of a bug tracking system against the mailing list is that > bugs do survive in a bug tracking system, > > No, this is the _BAD_ part, shit accumulates equally with > useful reports. > > Useful reports in non-bugtracking system environments get > retransmitted and eventually looked at. I think you are putting too much work on the bug reporter(s). If you want to ignore bug reports that only happen once, feel free, but give the rest of us a way to easily keep a history and list of bug reports. For instance, where is the list of open networking bugs for 2.4 now? -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear