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On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 05:26:23PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> > Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:11:01 -0700 > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:06:52AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > Making subscription to LKML a requirement would be a major barier for > > > people who just want to shoot off a bug report or similar but who do > > > not want to be subscribed (nor can be botherd to go through the > > > motions to subscribe, or perhaps can't work out how to subscribe)... > > > We want users to be able to submit bugreports to the list easily. > > > > The rejection sent to non-subscribers could point them to a website > > where they could submit a message via a webform (after correctly > > entering the contents of a CAPTCHA). > > No way, too much work. If plain email doesn't work, people will > throw up their hands and say "why bother?" We don't want to do > one iota of something which will even possibly deter a bug report > because we need as much information about bugs as possible. I agree with you David. I had to report a bug to the NTP mailing list. I got it back right in my face because I had not subscribed. Then I went to thei bugzilla interface... What a counter-intuitive tool ! I was about to give up at least 3 times. It took me at least 15 minutes to find how I could report my bug and provide the patch in a usable form. I'm really sure that a lot of bug reports get lost because of this ! I'd rather get a few spams on LKML than lose bug reports because of discouraged users ! Cheers, Willy - 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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