Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:56:58 +0100
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:31 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > Since the first list I sent immediately after 2.6.19-rc1 was released, 
> > > kernel Bugzilla #7255 is part of my list of 2.6.19-rc regressions but 
> > > has gotten exactly zero developer responses.
> > 
> > where was the lkml mail for this?
> > 
> > > 
> > > What exactly were the mistakes of the submitter resulting in noone 
> > > caring about Bugzilla #7255?
> > 
> > he didn't post to lkml?
> 
> That's no excuse, as Adrian pointed it out on LKML since weeks.
> 
> Also the kernel.org bugzilla has a real flaw:
> 
> There is no way to get informed of new entries automatically and
> filtered by Category and Component. At least I did not find a way and
> bugme-admin@osdl.org seems to be a black hole.
> 
> The result is that you have to go to bugzilla on a regular base instead
> of getting automatic notifications of new entries. I do it once in a
> while, but it is really ineffective.
> 

I screen all bugzilla reports and I ensure that any of them which look like
they're real and which have a breathing maintainer are brought to that
maintainer's attention.

So no, I think the number of bugs in bugzilla which the relevant maintainer
didn't hear about is vanishingly small.