Hi,

On Thursday, 22 of September 2005 09:15, Pierre Ossman wrote:

Russell King wrote:

quoted

So, before trying to get the "underworked" bug system used more,
please try to get more developers signed up to it so that we have
the necessary folk behind the bug system to handle the increased
work load.

 

What we probably need then is an official policy that maintainers need
to have an account in the bugzilla. Start with the subsystem maintainers
and leave it to them to get each driver maintainer in line. Having only
a handful of parts of the kernel in the bugzilla is just confusing.

Personally I think the mailing lists are a great way for general
discussion. But once we have a confirmed bug (or difficult new feature)
it is better off being tracked in bugzilla. And this is my opinion both
as a user and as a developer. Bugzilla is the de facto standard of
reporting bugs so some users might find it troublesome dealing with
mailing lists such as LKML.

Generally, I think, all bugs fall into one of two categories.  Namely, there
are bugs that get fixed immediately as soon as someone with a clue sees
the report, compilation problems and the like, and there are bugs that
require much time to be handled.  IMHO, it doesn't make sense to litter
bugzilla with bugs of the first kind, but all bugs of the second kind
should be tracked in it, at least for the record.

Greetings,
Rafael


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