Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

["Qi Yong" <qiyong@fc-cn.com>]

On 19/05/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:01:41 EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" said:
> > On Fri, 18 May 2007, debian developer wrote:
>
> > > -your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing
> > > bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because
> > > not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs.
> >                        ^^^^^^^ ^^^^
> > you might want to find a less demeaning term for debugging than
> > "wasting time."  just a thought.
>
> Wasn't his text, not his fault.  At least his patch is an improvement - now
> HOWTO only equates it with "wasting time" once, rather than twice. ;)

Hello,

This duplicated paragraph problem was introduced by the following two
commits. They are one patch actually.

bughunting patch adds bug; isn't it a vivid ironic example.

and also
> +not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs.

Torvalds, Care to revert one commit?

commit 722385f75efd82d9f480f0765a1e97a4d83cac0d
Author: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 21 22:37:10 2006 +0200

    HOWTO: bug report addition

    I suspect that not many people is subscribed to the bugzilla mailing list,
    not surprising since the URLs doesn't seem to be in the tree :)

    After fixing my english, I wonder if the following patch could be applied...

    Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

commit 3f27100872b21e4cc70d07b96eeb3611b30bce63
Author: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 30 23:27:49 2006 -0700

    [PATCH] HOWTO: mention bughunting

    Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


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Qi Yong