From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934861AbYEBRpP (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 13:45:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756957AbYEBRpB (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 13:45:01 -0400 Received: from smtp.enter.net ([216.193.128.24]:3613 "EHLO smtp.enter.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755963AbYEBRpB (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 13:45:01 -0400 From: Daniel Hazelton To: "Parag Warudkar" Subject: Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:44:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , LKML References: <82e4877d0805020742l7d4a6ec9mc72e79aa3d242348@mail.gmail.com> <200805021229.47038.dhazelton@enter.net> <82e4877d0805021030s793835a1le0032673b0f4c6c7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <82e4877d0805021030s793835a1le0032673b0f4c6c7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805021344.59492.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 02 May 2008 13:30:23 Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Hazelton > wrote: This is what Adrian was pointing > > > ... out and is exactly what shouldn't be happening. > > I wasn't arguing that it is what should be happening - I was just > pointing out that there are worse things than that routinely happen in > distro bugzillas! I have to admit that this is the truth. I've seen it myself. (Hell, I won't touch a bug-tracking system for that reason.) > Also I feel that if maintainer refuse to fix something - that's a dead > end as far as that particular bug is considered. We can try and track > such bugs in different STATUS but there would have to be people > interested in digging through such bugs and willing to fix it after > the maintainer has given up. Which is possible but not likely. > > Parag And I have to agree here. But there should be something that can be done to "coax" the maintainers that pull that kind of immature crap into acting mature and responsible. DRH -- Dialup is like pissing through a pipette. Slow and excruciatingly painful.