Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754240AbXFUXvN (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:51:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751007AbXFUXu7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:50:59 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:35898 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbXFUXu6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:50:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:51:17 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Verych , Martin Bligh , Natalie Protasevich , "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" , Andrew Morton , Stefan Richter , 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[?]. Message-ID: <20070621235117.GD23017@stusta.de> References: <32209efe0706181531x5322533dr31dc90e6dd8c7973@mail.gmail.com> <46770A22.4020007@mbligh.org> <32209efe0706181556l2ed378f4sf520c3852f398fa4@mail.gmail.com> <46771C5D.10809@mbligh.org> <20070619124855.GB12950@stusta.de> <20070619165300.GD19904@flower.upol.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1316 Lines: 34 On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >... > This is why I've been advocating bugzilla "forget" stuff, for example. I > tend to see bugzilla as a place where noise accumulates, rather than a > place where noise is made into a signal. > > Which gets my to the real issue I have: the notion of having a process for > _tracking_ all the information is actually totally counter-productive, if > a big part of the process isn't also about throwing noise away. > > We don't want to "save" all the crud. I don't want "smart tracking" to > keep track of everything. I want "smart forgetting", so that we are only > left with the major signal - the stuff that matters. Even generating the perfect signal is a complete waste of time if there's no recipient for the signal... > Linus cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/