Re: Linux 2.6.21

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:27:56PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:05:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>  > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:40:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  > >...
>  > > What's the difference between bugzilla and lkml.org? Both have search 
>  > > buttons. Both archive the old stuff. Both can be pointed to.
>  > 
>  > Mailing lists don't track bugs.
> 
> There's no reason they can't.  Store them in folders 'fixed' 'pending'
> 'notabug' etc. Move mails between them when states change.
> reply-to them when necessary. Bounce them. Add people to Ccs. etc. etc.
> 
> The only remaining piece of the puzzle is "how does everyone see the
> states of the various pools", which could be solved in a number of
> ways, daily uploads to a place on kernel org for eg.
> 
> Hell, you could store them in a git tree if it came to it.
> That would also solve the problem for those with an aversion
> to web browsers to see bugs :-)

That would be an implementation of a git based bug tracker.  :-)

> 	Dave

cu
Adrian

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