re: Dedicated kernel bug database

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote:
> Following on from yesterday's discussion about there not being much
> interaction between the kernel Bugzilla and the developers, I began
> wondering whether Bugzilla might be a bit too generic to be suited to
> kernel development, and that maybe a system written from the ground up
> for reporting kernel bugs would be better?
> 
> I.E. I am prepared to write it myself, if people think it's
> worthwhile.

Quoting Linus (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103911905214446&w=2):
> And many things _can_ be done without throwing out old designs.
> Implementation improvements are quite possible without trying to make
> something totally new to the outside. ...
> 
> Not throwing out the baby with the bath-water doesn't mean that you cannot
> improve the system. I'm only arguing against stupid people who think they
> need a revolution to improve - most real improvements are evolutionary.

I bet the thing to do is to spend some time as one of the
elves who make bugzilla.kernel.org work smoothly despite
the software; then figure out what incremental tweak you
can make to the software to make the elves' and users' lives
better.

-- 
Dan Kegel
Linux User #78045
http://www.kegel.com