Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: The bugzilla story | Date | Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:15:37 +0100 |
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On Monday 06 of December 2004 17:14, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2004-12-06 at 16:26, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > The thing is that -mm changes so fast that a bug reported can be solved > > an hour later, leaving a stale bug report for a few days (or years). > > Whoever wants to pick up the bug quite much has to mail either the > > bug-submitter asking if the bug has been resolved, mail the maintainer > > of whatever area the bug concerns or mail akpm.
I have stopped reporting the -mm issues using bugizlla exactly for this reason. Apparently, the reports get more attention when they are sent to LKML. ;-)
> > This leads me to thinking that bugzilla doesn't serve any functionality > > for at least -mm. > > Sometimes they do - for looking back and finding when a problem came in, > or for spotting common patterns. They are less useful but not of no use
Yes, but many things are not reported there anyway. IMVHO the bugzilla is an overkill for -mm bug reporting. The -mm kernels are released too often, they change too much, and the issues are often too simple to be reported this way.
Greets, RJW
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