From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:26:43 +0200
> > I reported a bug that eats people's hard disks due to a bug
> > in the X.ORG PCI support code on sparc, NOBODY has fixed
> > the bug in 2 years even though a full bugzilla entry with
> > even a full patch fix is in there.
>
> Well but at least they could find it again if they wanted.
> If you sent it by email and it had gotten lost for some reason
> (nobody interested, which seems to be the real issue here) then
> it would be lost forever.
WRONG! If I have sent it to the main developer list the damn patch
would be applied by now.
WHY?
BECAUSE EMAIL ENGAGES PEOPLE AND BUGZILLA DOES NOT!
Nobody looks at the bugzilla because there is too much junk in there
to make the signal any useful to search for, there's simply too much
noise.
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