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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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