Re: Linux 2.6.21

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Adrian Bunk schrieb:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:04:10PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > The kernel Bugzilla currently contains 1600 open bugs.
> > > Adrian, why do you keep harping on this, and ignoring reality?
> > > Kernel bugzilla has 1600 open bugs BECAUSE IT SUCKS.
> > > How many of those are interesting and valid? How many of them are 
> > > relevant? How many of them are duplicates?
> > And - how many of these bug reports have kernel's bugzilla ever forwarded 
> > to lkml so that other people could see them?
> >
> > Is that number zero (because kernel's bugzilla is configured this way)?
>
> Andrew forwards incoming Bugzilla bugs to the responsible maintainers 
> (if there are any).
>
> If it is considered useful it shouldn't be a problem to automatically 
> forward all incoming Bugzilla bugs to linux-kernel.

Why isn't it done yet? If the bugs were already forwarded to 
linux-kernel (and perhaps, to linux-<subsystem> when possible, too), we 
would save at least two days of this long "Linux 2.6.21" thread...

For I somehow feel that most people here dislike bugzilla because of 
misconceptions - which only arose as bugzilla.kernel.org is *really* 
misconfigured.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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