Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:46:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:46:33 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:41741 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:46:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD46186.4050103@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:52:54 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" CC: "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available. References: <1037325839.13735.4.camel@rth.ninka.net> <396026666.1037298946@[10.10.2.3]> In-Reply-To: <1037325839.13735.4.camel@rth.ninka.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 32 Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Hmmm ... I'm not sure that being that restrictive is going to help. > Whilst bugs against any randomly patched version of the kernel > probably aren't that interesting, things in major trees like -mm, > -ac, -dj etc are likely going to end up in mainline sooner or later > anyway ... wouldn't you rather know of the breakage sooner rather > than later? Unfortunately that doesn't scale well, and introduces all sorts of potential red herrings in bug reports... should I be handling bug reports for OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux branch, for example? ;-) and we've seen that there are patches in these various trees are often intentionally kept out of mainline for various reasons. I'm definitely going to close net driver bug reports which aren't against mainline, without regards to their contents or value... I thought this database was going to be used to stabalize 2.5... not provide a vehicle for further time wastage and distraction :) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/