Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264900AbTF0W5x (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:57:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264912AbTF0W5x (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:57:53 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:24457 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264900AbTF0W5u (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:57:50 -0400 Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org From: Alan Cox To: "David S. Miller" Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20030627.151906.102571486.davem@redhat.com> References: <3EFCBD12.3070101@candelatech.com> <20030627.145456.115915594.davem@redhat.com> <3EFCC1EB.2070904@candelatech.com> <20030627.151906.102571486.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1056755336.5459.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 28 Jun 2003 00:08:56 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1265 Lines: 27 On Gwe, 2003-06-27 at 23:19, David S. Miller wrote: > Forcing people to continue to retransmit the same report just pisses > people off, and in the end will get you less useful reports than if > you had flagged the report as 'please-gimme-more-info'. > > And this is different from patch submission in what way? Tried doing an SQL query or text analysis for similarities on random messages lurking in private mailboxes or mixed up in list archives. Its really hard. Now try doing that with bugzilla and its really easy. Nobody is saying "Dave shall use bugzilla", maybe you can find an underling to care, maybe the only time you want to use it is to say "thats really freaky, who else is seeing it and what hardware" >From Red Hat bugzilla I've done statistical analysis of IDE failure patterns, I've also dug up year old mislaid patches that would have been lost forever otherwise because the one person who fixed it was missed in the noise, even though lots of the noise was people hitting that same bug - 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/