Re: Dedicated kernel bug database

[Eli Carter]

John Bradford wrote:
>>| > I'm not trying to discourage you - just raising a potential gotcha.
>>|
>>| Overall, though, would you rather be presented with a list of
>>| categories, or a list of people and what parts of the code they
>>| maintain.  Personally, I think that a list of people is more
>>| intuitive, rather than an abstract list of categories, but I could be
>>| wrong.
>>
>>Do we have anyone targeted for interrupt routing problems (PIC, IO APIC,
>>ACPI, etc.)?
> 
> 
> No.  I nominate Alan :-).
> 
> OK, I see your point, but no bug system will ever be perfect.  Does
> that mean there is no point in trying to make a better one?  If
> everybody really thinks it's a waste of time, I won't bother.  It just
> seemed to me that we need something less generic than Bugzilla.  Maybe
> I am wrong, I don't know.

Don't get discouraged... Our flamethrowers are set to 'stun'. ;)

Bug tracking can get much better (I _hope_!), but I expect it to take 
some beating on the problem.  Keep beating on it.

Eli
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