From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261539AbULFPbA (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:31:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261535AbULFPbA (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:31:00 -0500 Received: from jade.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.136]:55467 "EHLO jade.spiritone.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261539AbULFP3B (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:29:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:28:51 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Alexander Nyberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: zwane@holomorphy.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: The bugzilla story Message-ID: <476570000.1102346931@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <1102342960.727.59.camel@boxen> References: <1102342960.727.59.camel@boxen> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > As some of you may have noticed I've been doing a run on bugzilla for > the last few days to close old bugs and upgrade those who still are real > bugs. > > I have a few things that I would like to enforce on bugzilla to makes it > more maintanable which it clearly hasn't been for a while - there are > lots and lots of bugs open older than 2.6.0-final. > > I think the alternative trees section should be dropped. This is > especially a matter for -mm which has most reports of the alternative > trees in bugzilla. -mm changes way too rapidly to keep track of at > bugzilla ending up with open bugs that are fixed long ago. > > I also think this goes for any alternative tree, that problems should be > reported directly to the maintainer/LKML of the tree. Only if a problem > can be reproduced with the mainline kernel should the bug be reported at > bugzilla. > > New bugzilla reports against other trees than mainline should be > rejected and ask the submitter to report directly to the > maintainer/LKML. > > Andrew, what do you think about bug reports against -mm on bugzilla? > > Does anyone see a problem with this? The subtrees section was created for exactly that reason - to isolate the bugs in alternate trees, and keep the out of everyone else's hair. Now if one was to argue that bugs in -mm should be cleaned up much more agressively, that'd make a lot of sense ... but that should be fairly easy to do as they're in a separate category you can search by. The main issue is that there haven't been many people doing what you're doing now ... going through and housekeeping the bugs. M.