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    DateThu, 10 Apr 2008 16:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
    SubjectRe: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors
    FromDavid Miller <>
    From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
    Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:02:35 +0200
    
    > On 11/04/2008, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
    > > From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
    > >  Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:09:11 +0200
    > >
    > >  What people don't get is that this is a situation where the "end node
    > >  principle" applies.  When you have limited resources (here:
    > >  developers) you don't push the bulk of the burdon upon them.  Instead
    > >  you push things out to the resource you have a lot of, the end nodes
    > >  (here: users), so that the situation actually scales.
    > >
    > Again I can''t do anything but agree with you. You are right. When
    > it's possible to do the work this way everyone wins.
    > I was just trying to say that when it can't be done that way or the
    > user won't, then the bug report still has value and still deserves to
    > be taken seriously (although it probably goes lower in the pile than
    > the bugs where the end users actually do bisect or whatever).
    
    Absolutely.  If, for example, someone has a clean OOPS I usually won't
    request a bisect, that's stupid.
    
    However if the OOPS is hard to diagnose, a bisect might be necessary
    still.
    
    
    
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