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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Yay, bug tracking! (was Re: Bug tracking in the run up from 2.5 to 2.6)
Date: 22 Oct 2002 10:49:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035280143.31917.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2614308576.1035225800@[10.10.2.3]>

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 02:43, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Count me in as a participant.  One thing that would be nice is
> > a mailing list where the bugs (and the changes to bugs) get
> > mailed, so we can get updates by email.
> 
> Bugzilla has email triggers, so this should be dead easy to do.
> Not sure if we need a list - bugzilla should be able to keep
> each people's "watching" criteria itself. If it turns out lists
> are easier, that should be easy to fix.
>  
> > I'll help track down, fix and admin bugs.
> 
> Thanks (to both of you ;-))!

>From some good and bad experiences in the desktop universe - you need
people who are willing to collate bugs, sort them, tidy duplicates,
identify the most common bug report etc. Without that it doesn't work.

Watching what Luis did to the gnome bug reporting has been an education
but I don't think he can be cloned trivially and I don't think we could
run off with him 8)

Bug reporting systems need maintenance or they collapse


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-22  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-17 22:52 Bug tracking in the run up from 2.5 to 2.6 Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-17 23:02 ` Timothy D. Witham
2002-10-18 13:41   ` mgross
2002-10-17 23:15 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 23:47   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-17 23:52     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-10-18  0:08       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-20 15:34   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-10-19 12:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-20 15:22   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22  1:08 ` Yay, bug tracking! (was Re: Bug tracking in the run up from 2.5 to 2.6) Jeff Garzik
2002-10-22  1:40   ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22  1:43     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22  9:49       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-10-22  9:37         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-24 18:34           ` Cliff White

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