Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dedicated kernel bug database | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:23:23 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> said: > > And what about GNATS? What about the others on > > http://www.a-a-p.org/tools_tracking.html ? A number of those address > > the web-based concern. Do any of them answer your other concerns? If > > there are, where do those fail that bugzilla, GNATS, etc. get it right? > > Why are you so against somebody sitting down and thinking, "OK, we > need a bug tracking database designed for debugging the Linux > kernel."?
I didn't see anybody saying that...
> I don't understand why you think it's a bad idea to start > over. If my code was rubbish, then it wouldn't get used, and I wasted > my time. Nobody else suffers.
Except for the users who tried it out, and the people who read the ensuing flamewars ;-)
"Start over" is one thing, "start over as if nothing had been done before" is another (and a bad idea, whatever you are trying to do).
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