Re: Linux 2.6.21

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:01:38AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
...
If bugs should be reported to the mailing list, then they
should just get rid of bugzilla because it's aparently
serving as a garbage bin.

The first question is not "Bugzilla" but "Does bug tracking make sense?".

Many bug reports to linux-kernel get zero attention and are lost without
tracking. Is losing bug reports OK or do we need a tracking of bugs?

Tracking means:
- not to miss bug reports
- record discussions and the status of the bugs
- the real value comes from:
provide useful reports like "all open ACPI bugs" or "all 2.6.21-rc
regressions" to people who are actually working on fixing the bugs

I was tracking 2.6.21-rc regressions.
Some people said this was useful.

Manually tracking of three dozen regressions plus sending regular sorted
reports was at the limit of what I am able to handle manually without
any tracking tool.

There are two different questions that seem to often be mixed in
discussions:

The first question is:
Does it make sense to track kernel bugs?

If no, there's no need to discuss Bugzilla or other tools.

If yes, the second question is:
Which tracking tool would make sense for the Linux kernel?
This could be Bugzilla, the Debian bug tracking system, or even
something written from scratch.

cu
Adrian

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