Re: [PATCH v1 (RFC)] docs: discourage users from using bugzilla.kernel.org
From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-11 18:14:59
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On 1/10/21 4:10 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
* About 66 of those ~200 components will assign bugs to email addresses
that look valid, but 125 of them end with @kernel-bugs.osdl.org or
@kernel-bugs.kernel.org. Those domains do not exist anymore, mails
sent there bounce ('Unrouteable address'). It's possible that the
server might be rewriting those domain names and nevertheless
delivers new reports and comments by mails to some human; but it
seems more like they never get mailed to anyone and thus just linger
in the database; no wonder quite a few of bugs filed against such
components never get a single reply (see below).Those @kernel-bugs email addresses should not be a problem: https://korg.docs.kernel.org/bugzilla.html#real-assignees-vs-virtual-assignees AFAIK, USB bugs go to linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, SCSI bugs go to linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org. netdev didn't want bugs sent there automatically IIRC, so a human takes care of doing that if warranted. Andrew Morton takes MM bugs and Cc:s them to linux-mm mailing list and then asks for discussion to continue on the mailing list. We could/should probably see if we can add more project-specific mailing lists to the automatic reporting -- but probably not LKML. Otherwise some bug reports might never be heard about. -- ~Randy