Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:24:57 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? |
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:26:55PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>> And we should be aware that reverting is only a workaround for the real > >>> problem which lies in our bug handling. > >> ... > > > > And this is something I want to emphasize again. > > > > How can we make any progress with the real problem and not only the > > symptoms? > ... > > Perhaps make lists of > > - bug reports which never lead to any debug activity > (no responsible person/team was found, or a seemingly person/team > did not start to debug the report) > > - known regressions on release, > > - regressions that became known after release, > > - subsystems with notable backlogs of old bugs, > > - other categories? > > Select typical cases from each categories, analyze what went wrong in > these cases, and try to identify practicable countermeasures.
No maintainer or no maintainer who is debugging bug reports is the major problem in all parts of your list.
> Another approach: Figure out areas where quality is exemplary and try > to draw conclusions for areas where quality is lacking.
ieee1394 has a maintainer who is looking after all bug reports he gets.
Conclusion: We need such maintainers for all parts of the kernel.
> Stefan Richter
cu Adrian
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