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To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Dedicated kernel bug database 
In-Reply-To: Message from John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> 
   of "Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:59:15 -0000." <200212192059.gBJKxFne002827@darkstar.example.net> 
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:23:23 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> said:
> > And what about GNATS?  What about the others on 
> > http://www.a-a-p.org/tools_tracking.html ?  A number of those address 
> > the web-based concern.  Do any of them answer your other concerns?  If 
> > there are, where do those fail that bugzilla, GNATS, etc. get it right?
> 
> Why are you so against somebody sitting down and thinking, "OK, we
> need a bug tracking database designed for debugging the Linux
> kernel."?

I didn't see anybody saying that...

>           I don't understand why you think it's a bad idea to start
> over.  If my code was rubbish, then it wouldn't get used, and I wasted
> my time.  Nobody else suffers.

Except for the users who tried it out, and the people who read the ensuing
flamewars ;-)

"Start over" is one thing, "start over as if nothing had been done before"
is another (and a bad idea, whatever you are trying to do).

Linux has borrowed much from Unix, in design and also in avoiding mistakes
made elsewhere. Do follow this example.
-- 
Dr. Horst H. von Brand                   User #22616 counter.li.org
Departamento de Informatica                     Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria              +56 32 654239
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