Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:04:56 +0100 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version. |
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On 10/11/06, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote: > Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/11/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > There's no shortage of issues that need fixing, but since we keep > > > > merging new stuff, a lot of bugfixing energy gets spend on the new > > > > cool stuff instead of fixing up any other issues we have. > > > > > > but if you do this you just end up with a bigger backlog so that the > > > next one will even be more unstable due to a extreme high change rate. > > > Only if people continue to work on new stuff during the "bug fixing only" > > cycle. If we manage to get everyone focused on bug fixing only for the > > entire cycle the backlog won't be growing (much). > > Sorry, won't work. People working on shiny new toys will just put off > sending in their patches for a cycle, and the usual bugfixers will likewise > just go on doing their stuff. > > > > > Coverity has, as of this writing, identified 728 issues in the current > > > > kernel. Sure, some of those have already been identified as false or > > > > ignorable issues, but many are flagged as actual bugs and still more > > > > are as yet uninspected. > > > > most are mostly false. And the rest is getting looked at. What's the > > > problem? > > > Yes, MANY are false, and I know the rest are getting worked at, I work on > > some myself when time permits. I mentioned it simply as an indicator > > (one amongst many) that we have a lot of known unfixed issues. > > OK, lead by example: Do put off new work and work just on fixing things for > a while. Collect bug reports and make them useful for would-be-fixers. Etc.
I try. Unfortunately I don't have nearly as much time as I would like, to work on the kernel, but when I do have time I try to fix bugs. If you look through the mailing list archives you will see that I try to fix bugs/buglets most of the time and I find these by combing through the coverity database, bugzilla, the mailing list, logs of test builds of new kernels etc etc... I don't maintain lists of unfixed bugs. I would love to do so, but I lack the time to do it properly.
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