From: "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:58:09 +0200
> On 4/29/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > We are already quite good at ignoring bug reports that come through > > > linux-kernel, and it's an _advantage_ of the kernel Bugzilla to see more > > > than 1600 open bugs because this tells how bad we are at handling bugs. > > > > No, it just shows that bugzilla doesn't matter for most of the kernel. > > > > Don't say that "bugzilla tells how bad we are at handling bugs". It tells > > how bad *bugzilla* is for handling bugs, nothing more. > > > > I totally disagree here, bugzilla is a very good tool. No, Bugzilla really does suck, and I personally refuse to use it when I have a choice. And guess what? You better be concerned about that because I maintain all of the networking code :-) It puts the onus FAR too much on the developer and not enough on the reporter and other minions. We have a small resource of developers, yet lots of users, bug reporters, and minions, so something that doesn't take advantage of the larger resource we have is going to not function efficiently at all. Yet that is what bugzilla does. It's made way too much work for me every time I'm come in contact with it, it wastes my time instead of making good use of it. As a developer I do not want to get pounded with emails containing state changes and other bullshit that typically comes with being assigned to or on the CC of a bugzilla entry. I don't want to be reminded that a bug hasn't been touched in weeks, if the reporter doesn't care I don't care and I'll work on things that people do care about. It makes me delete all the bugzilla email, even the ones with important information in them, because it's rediculious to have to sift through all of that crap. People only use bugzilla because it is well understood and nothing better has reached critical mass yet. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
