From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:28:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:28:28 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:47833 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:28:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:33:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20021115.133319.89269342.davem@redhat.com> To: lm@bitmover.com Cc: mbligh@aracnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available. From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20021115132304.M19291@work.bitmover.com> References: <1037395835.22209.3.camel@rth.ninka.net> <336460000.1037398316@flay> <20021115132304.M19291@work.bitmover.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Larry McVoy Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:23:04 -0800 This is not an easy problem space, on the one hand you want to have all bugs tracked, on the other hand, trivial bugs in the bug db just make the bug db unusable. No engineer is going to put up with 100,000 stupid bug reports. You need a plan to get rid of those or keep them out of the bugdb or it's unlikely to get used by the people who really need to use it. Exactly. It seems to me that only allowing one person to close a bug is going to be the big bottleneck in a project like this. There is no reason the community cannot close the bugs. It isn't going to scale if it's just one person per category. That simply won't work. So with that taken care of, basically the database begins to degenerate into a copy of linux-kernel with a nicer search engine :-)