From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:18:31 -0700

That being said..  four or five years ago, developers would often work
closely with the reporter working out why the reporter's failure was
occurring.  Several days of back-and-forth.

The ratio of bug reports to developers was significantly different
back then.

I pine for the "good ole' days" of kernel development sometimes too,
but I try to be realistic and understand why things are different now.