Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753111AbZJZSl0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:41:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752189AbZJZSlZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:41:25 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:48409 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751783AbZJZSlZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:41:25 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4AE5ED2D.2010708@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:40:45 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091025 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso , Robert Bradbury CC: Thomas Backlund , LKML , Frans Pop Subject: Re: RFC: Updating the LKML bug reporting/updating framework References: <4AE4E026.9070402@mandriva.org> <20091026145637.GE13941@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091026145637.GE13941@mit.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1436 Lines: 35 Theodore Tso wrote: > Most end users who use a Linux distribution will have a much better > time if they use the support channels (bugzilla, irc, web forums, > etc.) for their particular Linux distribution. [...] > even some community distributions, such as > Ubuntu, do add a significant number of "value add" (and thus, bugs :-) > to their kernels. The downside is that such bugtrackers appear to be chronically understaffed in the triage department. Therefore, bugs which could look like potential upstream bugs to a somewhat trained eye are far too rarely reported to upstream by distro bug triage teams. > There are also individual sublists for people who are only working on > a specific part of the kernel (i.e., the linux-ext4 mailing list, the > linux-scsi mailing list, etc). Robert, these mailing lists can be found in the MAINTAINERS file in the root of the kernel sources. The reporting-bugs page which Thomas mentioned points to this file as a source for contact persons, but the list addresses in there are IMO even more important. About bugzilla.kernel.org: It's more a tracker than a reporting tool. -- 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/