Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:59:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?]. |
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >... > > This is why I've been advocating bugzilla "forget" stuff, for example. I > > tend to see bugzilla as a place where noise accumulates, rather than a > > place where noise is made into a signal. > > > > Which gets my to the real issue I have: the notion of having a process for > > _tracking_ all the information is actually totally counter-productive, if > > a big part of the process isn't also about throwing noise away. > > > > We don't want to "save" all the crud. I don't want "smart tracking" to > > keep track of everything. I want "smart forgetting", so that we are only > > left with the major signal - the stuff that matters. > > Even generating the perfect signal is a complete waste of time if > there's no recipient for the signal...
My argument is that *if* we had "more signal, less noise", we'd probably get more people looking at it.
In fact, I guarantee that's the case. You may not be 100% happy with the regression list, but every single maintainer/developer I've talked to has said they appreciated it and it made it easier (and thus more likely) for them to actually look at what the outstanding issues were.
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