Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Nov 2006 16:18:13 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version. |
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:56:58 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:31 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Since the first list I sent immediately after 2.6.19-rc1 was released, > > > kernel Bugzilla #7255 is part of my list of 2.6.19-rc regressions but > > > has gotten exactly zero developer responses. > > > > where was the lkml mail for this? > > > > > > > > What exactly were the mistakes of the submitter resulting in noone > > > caring about Bugzilla #7255? > > > > he didn't post to lkml? > > That's no excuse, as Adrian pointed it out on LKML since weeks. > > Also the kernel.org bugzilla has a real flaw: > > There is no way to get informed of new entries automatically and > filtered by Category and Component. At least I did not find a way and > bugme-admin@osdl.org seems to be a black hole. > > The result is that you have to go to bugzilla on a regular base instead > of getting automatic notifications of new entries. I do it once in a > while, but it is really ineffective. >
I screen all bugzilla reports and I ensure that any of them which look like they're real and which have a breathing maintainer are brought to that maintainer's attention.
So no, I think the number of bugs in bugzilla which the relevant maintainer didn't hear about is vanishingly small.
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