Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:46:44 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | re: Dedicated kernel bug database |
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John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote: > Following on from yesterday's discussion about there not being much > interaction between the kernel Bugzilla and the developers, I began > wondering whether Bugzilla might be a bit too generic to be suited to > kernel development, and that maybe a system written from the ground up > for reporting kernel bugs would be better? > > I.E. I am prepared to write it myself, if people think it's > worthwhile.
Quoting Linus (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103911905214446&w=2): > And many things _can_ be done without throwing out old designs. > Implementation improvements are quite possible without trying to make > something totally new to the outside. ... > > Not throwing out the baby with the bath-water doesn't mean that you cannot > improve the system. I'm only arguing against stupid people who think they > need a revolution to improve - most real improvements are evolutionary.
I bet the thing to do is to spend some time as one of the elves who make bugzilla.kernel.org work smoothly despite the software; then figure out what incremental tweak you can make to the software to make the elves' and users' lives better.
-- Dan Kegel Linux User #78045 http://www.kegel.com
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