Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:23:54 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors |
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David Miller wrote: > From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:27:14 -0400 > >> It's *your* bug -- you signed off on the commit. > > I sign off on basically every networking commit, does that mean I have > to fix every networking bug and every networking bug is "mine"? ..
Absolutely, though to a varying degree. That's the responsibility that goes with the role of a subsystem maintainer. I once had such a role, and gave it up when I felt I could no longer keep up.
You still keep refering to it as "your (my) bug". It's not. I had nothing to do with it, other than stumbling over it.
When people stumble over a libata bug, I look hard to see if my code could possibly cause it. Jeff looks even harder, because he's the current subsystem dude for libata.
I never suggest a user search through a mountain of unrelated commits for something I've screwed up on. I give more directed help, patches to collect more relevant information, and patches to try and resolve it.
The last thing I'd ever do, is diss the reporter.
Regards.
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