Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:08:32AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > ..
> > > This is all QA-101 that _cannot be argued against on a rational basis_, 
> > > it's just that these sorts of things have been largely ignored for 
> > > years, in favor of the all-too-easy "open source means many eyeballs and 
> > > that is our QA" answer, which is a _good_ answer but by far not the most 
> > > intelligent answer! Today "many eyeballs" is simply not good enough and 
> > > nature (and other OS projects) will route us around if we dont change.
> > ..
> >
> > QA-101 and "many eyeballs" are not at all in opposition.
> > The latter is how we find out about bugs on uncommon hardware,
> > and the former is what we need to track them and overall quality.
> >
> > A HUGE problem I have with current "efforts", is that once someone
> > reports a bug, the onus seems to be 99% on the *reporter* to find
> > the exact line of code or commit.  Ghad what a repressive method.
>
> 99% on the reporter?  Is that why I always try to understand the
> reporters problem (*provided* it's in an area I know about) and come
> up with a patch to test a theory or fix the issue?
..

Same here.

I just find it weird that something can be known broken for several -rc*
kernels before I happen to install it, discover it's broken on my own machine,
and then I track it down, fix it, and submit the patch, generally all within a
couple of hours.  Where the heck was the dude(ess) that broke it ??  AWOL.

And when I receive hostility from the "maintainers" of said code for fixing
their bugs, well.. that really motivates me to continue reporting new ones..

> I'm _less_ inclined to provide such a "service" for lazy maintainers
> who've moved off into new and wonderfully exciting technologies, to
> churn out more patches for me to merge (and eventually provide a free
> to them bug fixing service for.)
>
> That's "less" inclined, not "won't".

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