Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270127AbTGMF1J (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:27:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270128AbTGMF1J (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:27:09 -0400 Received: from screech.rychter.com ([212.87.11.114]:20145 "EHLO screech.rychter.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270127AbTGMF1E (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:27:04 -0400 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20030712222222.01089864.davem@redhat.com> (David S. Miller's message of "Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:22:22 -0700") References: <1056755336.5459.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627.172123.78713883.davem@redhat.com> <1056827972.6295.28.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030628.150328.74739742.davem@redhat.com> <20030712222222.01089864.davem@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) X-Spammers-Please: blackholeme@rychter.com From: Jan Rychter Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:42:36 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2108 Lines: 55 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "David" =3D=3D David S Miller writes: David> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 10:07:42 -0700 David> Jan Rychter wrote: >> Interesting you should think you're 'rewarding' people. I thought >> your goal was to have fun working on cool software and making it >> better. I also thought I had the same goal as a bug-reporter. >> >> When I write software, I care about every bug report and consider >> people doing the reporting a very valuable resource. David> The whole game changes when you are stretched as thinly as I am. David> Scaling becomes everything, and nitpicking through vague and David> poorly composed bug reports is an absolute waste of my time as David> networking subsystem maintainer. [...] Couldn't agree more. Especially after having benefited from your code so much (starting back in the early sparc days...). David> Having me pillage through a bug database is a poor use of my David> time and capabilities. And all of my time is spent reviewing David> patches and dealing with the properly composed bug reports David> anyways, so even if I enjoyed pillaging through badly made bug David> reports I couldn't. David> People are assuming that just because _I_ don't want to work on David> the bad bug reports that I think nobody should. It's the exact David> opposite. [...] Thanks for this explanation -- I responded because I was worried you were convincing people that it's a good thing if bug reports get dropped, because the really important ones will float to the top anyway. =2D-J. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/EPFOLth4/7/QhDoRAjf+AKC59JVBV7nrxiu6AhOik4DdIWAriwCeMBrV c0f29cO6CjS03BBunvl4J0Q= =0WVV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- - 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/