Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264891AbTF0Wab (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264887AbTF0WaJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:30:09 -0400 Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:48295 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264868AbTF0W3x (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:29:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:31:53 -0400 From: Ben Collins To: Davide Libenzi Cc: "David S. Miller" , mbligh@aracnet.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org Message-ID: <20030627213153.GR501@phunnypharm.org> References: <20030626.224739.88478624.davem@redhat.com> <21740000.1056724453@[10.10.2.4]> <20030627.143738.41641928.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1625 Lines: 36 On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:02:00PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > > > No, this is the _BAD_ part, shit accumulates equally with > > useful reports. > > > > Useful reports in non-bugtracking system environments get > > retransmitted and eventually looked at. > > David, your method is the dream of every software developer. Having Q/A > repeatedly pushing the same issue. Having a track is good and flagging a > report as not-a-bug or need-more-info takes almost the same time (if the > system is sanely designed) it takes you to flag your message a shit. In > this way though you do not lose things meaningful that you overlooked at > first sight. And this comes from someone that wanted to quit his job when > they forced for the first time to use a tracking system ;) As a bug reporter, and as someone who receives bug reports, I can say that on both ends I find it easier to send emails, and get emails than to fiddle with any bug tracking tool. I'm with Dave on this one. Scrap the nifty tools, and just use good sense. Emails let each developer handle bug reports in their own way. I'm sure you could make a nice local tool for yourself to manage your own bug reports. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ - 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/