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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Eli Carter wrote:

| John Bradford wrote:
| >>| > I'm not trying to discourage you - just raising a potential gotcha.
| >>|
| >>| Overall, though, would you rather be presented with a list of
| >>| categories, or a list of people and what parts of the code they
| >>| maintain.  Personally, I think that a list of people is more
| >>| intuitive, rather than an abstract list of categories, but I could be
| >>| wrong.
| >>
| >>Do we have anyone targeted for interrupt routing problems (PIC, IO APIC,
| >>ACPI, etc.)?
| >
| >
| > No.  I nominate Alan :-).
| >
| > OK, I see your point, but no bug system will ever be perfect.  Does
| > that mean there is no point in trying to make a better one?  If
| > everybody really thinks it's a waste of time, I won't bother.  It just
| > seemed to me that we need something less generic than Bugzilla.  Maybe
| > I am wrong, I don't know.
|
| Don't get discouraged... Our flamethrowers are set to 'stun'. ;)
|
| Bug tracking can get much better (I _hope_!), but I expect it to take
| some beating on the problem.  Keep beating on it.

I agree.  I wasn't trying to discourage you.  There's much room for
improvement IMO.

-- 
~Randy

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