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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Dedicated kernel bug database
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> I've got loads of ideas about how we could build a better bug database

Go ahead, knock yourself out. Come back when you're done.

> - for example, we have categories at the moment in Bugzilla.  Why?  We
> already have a MAINTAINERS file, so say somebody looks up the relevant
> maintainer in that list, finds them, then goes to enter a bug in
> Bugzilla.  Now they have to assign it to a category, and different
> people may well assign the same bug to different categories -
> immediately making duplicate detection more difficult.

Have you actually looked at the maintainers file? It's a twisted mess
of outdated information, in no well formated order. The category list
in Bugzilla was an attempt to bring some sanity to the structure,
though I won't claim it's perfect. We really need a 3-level tree, but
that's a fair amount of work to code.

M.



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