From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261641AbULFXS0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:18:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261706AbULFXSP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:18:15 -0500 Received: from grendel.digitalservice.pl ([217.67.200.140]:58803 "HELO mail.digitalservice.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261698AbULFXOe (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:14:34 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The bugzilla story Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:15:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Alan Cox , Alexander Nyberg , "Martin J. Bligh" , zwane@holomorphy.com, akpm@osdl.org References: <1102342960.727.59.camel@boxen> <1102350405.727.79.camel@boxen> <1102349678.14484.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1102349678.14484.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412070015.37711.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 06 of December 2004 17:14, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2004-12-06 at 16:26, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > The thing is that -mm changes so fast that a bug reported can be solved > > an hour later, leaving a stale bug report for a few days (or years). > > Whoever wants to pick up the bug quite much has to mail either the > > bug-submitter asking if the bug has been resolved, mail the maintainer > > of whatever area the bug concerns or mail akpm. I have stopped reporting the -mm issues using bugizlla exactly for this reason. Apparently, the reports get more attention when they are sent to LKML. ;-) > > This leads me to thinking that bugzilla doesn't serve any functionality > > for at least -mm. > > Sometimes they do - for looking back and finding when a problem came in, > or for spotting common patterns. They are less useful but not of no use Yes, but many things are not reported there anyway. IMVHO the bugzilla is an overkill for -mm bug reporting. The -mm kernels are released too often, they change too much, and the issues are often too simple to be reported this way. Greets, RJW -- - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? - That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. -- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"