From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:56:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:56:37 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:36996 "EHLO wookie-t23.pdx.osdl.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:56:35 -0400 Subject: Re: Bug tracking in the run up from 2.5 to 2.6 From: "Timothy D. Witham" To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <205680000.1034895125@flay> References: <205680000.1034895125@flay> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Open Source Development Lab, Inc. Message-Id: <1034895725.8879.5.camel@wookie-t23.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.1.2.99 (Preview Release) Date: 17 Oct 2002 16:02:05 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 15:52, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > We're proposing to create a bug tracking system to help keep track of > 2.5 kernel bugs ... in an attempt to help get 2.5 stabilised as quickly as > possible. > > It would be based on Bugzilla, and open for anyone to log bugs against > 2.5, though those would then be filtered by a set of "maintainers" to keep > the quality of the data up to snuff. Ideally those would be the subsystem > maintainers as we know them now, though in the event that certain people > weren't interested, we'd find a "bugzilla maintainer" for the subsystem to > fill that role. > > IBM's Linux Technology Centre is willing to provide the machine, admin, > and people to help maintain the data in the database. We have someone > who's kindly agreed in principle to host the machine for us (feel free to > speak up if you like, otherwise I'll wait until the proposal is firmed up). > Thanks for asking before you used my name. :-) But yes OSDL would host it. Tim > We'll also have a slew of engineers dedicated to stabilise 2.5 after the > freeze, but this is not intended to be solely an IBM thing by any means; > we're volunteering to host the tracking database on behalf of the community, > and do some of the dirty work of administration. The intent is to have this > up and running by Halloween, and for a signification cross-section of the > community to use it. > > So ... are the maintainers interested in working with this kind of system? > We really need to get some feedback before commiting resources to doing > this - if you'd be willing to close out bugs as you find / fix them, please let > me know. This is a web interface system, with handy email triggers, and is > very easy to use. > > Feedback saying "well, it'll only be useful if you do XYZ" is welcome too. > We're very unlikely to change tools to use something other than Bugzilla > at this point, so that's not really open for debate. > I would like to know this also. :-) Tim > Martin. > > - > 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/ -- Timothy D. Witham - Lab Director - wookie@osdlab.org Open Source Development Lab Inc - A non-profit corporation 15275 SW Koll Parkway - Suite H - Beaverton OR, 97006 (503)-626-2455 x11 (office) (503)-702-2871 (cell) (503)-626-2436 (fax)