Re: Dedicated kernel bug database

Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:55:20 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Eli Carter wrote:

| 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.

I agree. I wasn't trying to discourage you. There's much room for
improvement IMO.

-- 
~Randy

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