Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:35:21 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: bcollins@debian.org, davidel@xmailserver.org, davem@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> 1. default owners -> lists:
> 
> Setting default owners to existing lists is somewhat invasive, and
> might provoke riots ;-) Not only do you get the new bug notification,
> but also any updates, which may become irritating.

That's OK.  It is a matter of people being aware that the updates will be
echoed to a mailing list and acting appropriately.

If some low-value stuff leaks through then ho-hum, at least it was
on-topic.  It is not as if we are unused to low-value content...

It would be good if pure administrata such as changing the status were
filtered.

In fact, there is probably no point in sending anything bugzilla->list apart
from the initial report.  If the bug is then pursued via bugzilla then OK. 
If is is pursued via email then bugzilla just captures the discussion.   

> There's probably 
> some vaguely happy medium to be found between: 
> 	a) sending newly logged bugs to existing lists,
> 	b) sending updates to some new list.
> Maybe if we just create a new list for each category, and let
> people subscribe at will to those ... and I keep sending newly logged
> bugs to linux-kernel? I can cc netdev / linux-scsi / whatever on those
> new ones if that helps?

I think sending the initial report to the relevant lists and then capturing
incoming email would suffice.

> 2. email back in.
> 
> Email back in is harder, and needs more thought as to how to make it
> easy to use, whilst avoiding logging crap (eg. ensuing flamewars that 
> derive from the bug reports, etc).

Well hopefully people will have the sense to cut the bugzilla address off
the Cc line if it drifts off-topic.

> My intuition is to log replies by
> default, and hack off certain threads by hand

Nah.  Just log everything and hack off the crap by larting people.


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