On Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:09, Andi Kleen wrote: > > - a lot of reporters will not use bugzilla, because it's damn > > inconvenient even for reporting. If you propose something that uses > > Don't think that's true. There are plenty of projects who only > accept bugs through bugzilla (mozilla, various distributions, etc.) > and I don't see any evidence of your claim being true. > > Sure there will be always people who cannot be bothered > to use any kind of interface for bugs, but then > these are unlikely to stay on board during a longer > remote debugging q'n'a session either. So those people > can be just ignored; they essentially don't exist in > the bug report universe. > > Anyways it only works if people are willing to use it too and there > are enough people who maintain bugs (aka ask questions to find out > who to reassign, prune old bugs etc.) If that's not there then > it won't work well obviously, like it is currently the case. > > I don't think the "keep it in Andrew's/Adrian's head" method > is going to scale longer term at least (and one of them has > already thrown in the towel) > > The "send it to a gigantic mailing list and hope someone catches > it" method also doesn't seem to be that great. At least there > are lots of lost reports in my experience this way.
This, actually, might work if the report is 'flagged' in a specific way. For example, if there's a message sent to LKML with a combination of '[BUG]' and 'suspend' in the subject, I have no problems whatsoever with spotting it. ;-) Greetings, Rafael - 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/
