Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757724AbXFSO13 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:27:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752947AbXFSO1W (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:27:22 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:48596 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751997AbXFSO1V (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:27:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4677E7C3.90706@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:27:15 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Verych CC: Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Martin Bligh , Natalie Protasevich , "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" , Andrew Morton , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Michal Piotrowski , Andi Kleen , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?]. References: <4675C083.6080409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070617220927.99ebc1ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <32209efe0706181531x5322533dr31dc90e6dd8c7973@mail.gmail.com> <46770A22.4020007@mbligh.org> <32209efe0706181556l2ed378f4sf520c3852f398fa4@mail.gmail.com> <46771C5D.10809@mbligh.org> <20070619124855.GB12950@stusta.de> <20070619140512.GA19904@flower.upol.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070619140512.GA19904@flower.upol.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1225 Lines: 31 On 6/19/2007 4:05 PM, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> The Debian BTS requires you to either write emails with control messages >> or generating control messages with external tools. ... >> In Bugzilla the same works through a web interface. ... > Basic concept of Debian BTS is what i've discovered after many useless > hours i spent in Bugzilla. And this is mainly because of one basic > important thing, that nobody acknowledged (for newbies, like me): > > * E-Mail with useful MUAs, after it got reliable delivery MTAs with qmail > (or exim) is the main communication toolset. > > Can't you see that from Linux's patch sending policy? That's for developers, not for users. There are different people involved in - patch handling, - bug handling (bugs are reported by end-users), therefore don't forget that PTS and BTS have different requirements. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -==- =--== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/