Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761413AbXKMUxa (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:53:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756631AbXKMUxS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:53:18 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:40435 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752384AbXKMUxQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:53:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:52:22 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Russell King Cc: David Miller , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, protasnb@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs Message-Id: <20071113125222.9eb53ac8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071113193219.GC1356@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20071113034916.2556edd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.043207.44732743.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113193219.GC1356@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1694 Lines: 39 On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:32:19 +0000 Russell King wrote: > There's another issue I want to raise concerning bugzilla. We have the > classic case of "not enough people reading bugzilla bugs" - which is one > of the biggest problems with bugzilla. Virtually no one in the ARM > community looks for ARM bugs in bugzilla. Nor should they. > Let's not forget that it would be a waste of time for people to manually > check bugzilla for ARM bugs. There's soo few people reporting ARM bugs > into bugzilla that a weekly manual check by every maintainer would just > return the same old boring results for months and months at a time. I screen all bugzilla reports. 100% of them. - I'll try to establish whether it is a regression - I'll solicit any extra information which I believe the reveloper will need - I'll ensure that an appropriate developer has seen the report And yes, the number of arm-specific reports in there is very small. > It would be far more productive if the ARM category was deleted from > bugzilla and the few people who use bugzilla reported their bugs on the > mailing list. We've a couple of thousand people on the ARM kernel > mailing list at the moment - that's 3 orders of magnitude more of eyes > than look at bugzilla. Is that linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk? If so, MANITAINERS claims that it is subscribers-only. That would cause some bug reporters to give up and go away. - 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/