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SubjectRe: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs
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On Friday 02 May 2008 13:30:23 Parag Warudkar wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>
> wrote: This is what Adrian was pointing
>
> > ... out and is exactly what shouldn't be happening.
>
> I wasn't arguing that it is what should be happening - I was just
> pointing out that there are worse things than that routinely happen in
> distro bugzillas!

I have to admit that this is the truth. I've seen it myself. (Hell, I won't
touch a bug-tracking system for that reason.)

> Also I feel that if maintainer refuse to fix something - that's a dead
> end as far as that particular bug is considered. We can try and track
> such bugs in different STATUS but there would have to be people
> interested in digging through such bugs and willing to fix it after
> the maintainer has given up. Which is possible but not likely.
>
> Parag

And I have to agree here. But there should be something that can be done
to "coax" the maintainers that pull that kind of immature crap into acting
mature and responsible.

DRH

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