From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946558AbXD3S2G (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:28:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423614AbXD3S2G (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:28:06 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:32913 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423530AbXD3S2D (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:28:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:27:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Adrian Bunk cc: Diego Calleja , Andi Kleen , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070429173500.GA30248@one.firstfloor.org> <20070429180909.GA30604@one.firstfloor.org> <20070429214007.9ea12e96.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070429201729.GQ3468@stusta.de> <20070429210505.GS3468@stusta.de> <20070430180952.GC23336@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1463790079-671838492-1177957647=:3419" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463790079-671838492-1177957647=:3419 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ponder that, grasshopper. And until you can see that things are not > "either-or", "black-and-white", "all or nothing", I don't think I really > can have anything worthwhile to add in this discussion to you. People who > think in absolutes are simply not worth talking to. This is another case of "perfect is the enemy of good". Tryng to reach perfect is not only guaranteed to fail, but trying to reach it AND NOT REALIZING that it's stupid and wrong is actually much WORSE than just trying to do a reasonable job. And if you put some _totally_idiotic_ expectation that all bugreports can be fixed, and should always be totally blocking, that's guaranteed to just cause a totally unusuable bug reporting system. And your bugzilla arguments seem to be exactly that. A naïve and totally unrealistic expectation of "every bugreport is sacred" is BAD. In other words: perfection not only isn't even possible, BUT IT IS NOT EVEN WORTH TRYING TO REACH FOR! Linus ---1463790079-671838492-1177957647=:3419--