David> From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 28 Jun 2003 David> 20:19:32 +0100 David> Which means you miss stuff. David> Not my problem Alan. If the user gives a crap about their David> re
The whole game changes when you are stretched as thinly as I am. Scaling becomes everything, and nitpicking through vague and poorly composed bug reports is an absolute waste of my time as networking
David> The whole game changes when you are stretched as thinly as I am. David> Scaling becomes everything, and nitpicking through vague and David> poorly composed bug reports is an absolute waste of
I would like to ask everyone NOT to use bugme.osdl.org for networking bug reporting any more. It's absolutely the wrong model. When a bug gets filed that way it sort of goes into a black hole that _I
I'll take you off the maintainers list, and find someone else to do it for networking. If you want net bugs reported to mailing lists, that's fine. If people choose to file bugs in bugzilla as well,
Just so that someone can post them to the lists? That sounds like a completely silly way to operate. I'd rather they get posted to the lists _ONLY_. This way not that "someone", but "everyone" on the
I have recently pondered usage of Request Tracker for this kind of tasks. The problem with "post to the list" is that sometimes things slip thru without anybody catching them. Integrating linux-kerne
The problem with "post to the list" is that sometimes things slip thru without anybody catching them. It is not a problem, it is a feature. What will happen is the same thing that happens if Linus dr
We can do that. The owner of a category can be a mailing list (eg the bugme-janitors list for some of the categories). The idea is to spread it across categories (one person for each (or a few) cate
A bug tracking system stick you on a bug and makes all this to look like real work, that's why maybe David does not like it :) Kidding ;) The good of a bug tracking system against the mailing list is
Yeah, that is tricky ... see below. That's easy. I actually already hand filter the bugs, and forward to linux-kernel those that seem to have enough information in to be useful to people, and aren't
I did make the effort to make a dedicated bug database for kernel development in December last year. Do people actively hate it, or are they just not aware of it? :-). I got some very favourable com