Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>...
> This is why I've been advocating bugzilla "forget" stuff, for example. I 
> tend to see bugzilla as a place where noise accumulates, rather than a 
> place where noise is made into a signal. 
> 
> Which gets my to the real issue I have: the notion of having a process for 
> _tracking_ all the information is actually totally counter-productive, if 
> a big part of the process isn't also about throwing noise away.
> 
> We don't want to "save" all the crud. I don't want "smart tracking" to 
> keep track of everything. I want "smart forgetting", so that we are only 
> left with the major signal - the stuff that matters. 

Even generating the perfect signal is a complete waste of time if 
there's no recipient for the signal...

> 		Linus

cu
Adrian

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