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>>>The advantage email has over this are too numerous to list, >but they start with the fact that lots of kernel developers are >lazy[*]. 2-3 keypresses to archive a patch for looking at later/merging >are about the level of involvement thats aimed for. >Having to start a browser, go to the bugzilla site, log in, search/browse >for bugs etc.. way too involved.>>Dave.>>[*] In the sense that if life can be made easier, it should be. > That's a bit of apples and oranges ;) Starting a browser is equivalent to starting a mail client. In some instances it's the same program. Hitting 2-3 keypresses to archive an email...how do you manage that archive v.s. it being managed for you w/ bugzilla? Logging into bugzilla can be automatic, searching for a bug across the archive is in my opinion much more easily done w/ a relational database than grepping several mbox files that collect hundreds of messages a day. Not to mention that comments on each bug are localized to -that- bug. All said and done there are a lot of pros and cons from the newbie v.s. the 'Linus' perspective. I think there is at least one or two irate persons per week here that have been fighting to find a solution to their problem and someone finally speaks up "oh yeah, do this". It really would be nice to have a reference database -somewhere- where we could find answers or even just suggestions about the myriad of problems related to the kernel and what the kernel touches. David [*] RDBMSs do make my life much easier - 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/ | ||||||||||
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