linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.21

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:28:49 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > 
> > Go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org. Hit query. Find the box that says
> > "Bug Changes, Only bugs changed in the last __ days". Stick 7 in it.
> > 
> > 74 bugs found.
> > 
> > Not hard to do.
> 
> And what part of the "directed" did you miss?
> 
> Do you really expect me to go there every day to look at all bugs? That's 
> nbot a bug tracker. That's just a noise-maker.
> 
> It needs to be email, not some "mouse around for 30 seconds and type 
> thing", and it needs to be *directed*. Preferably with somebody who 
> actually did some manual scanning over it and spent a few minutes just 
> looking at whether it looks like a worthy bug.
> 
> In other words: we shouldn't have all developers wasting time doing this. 

yup.

> It would be much better to have _one_ person (or a group of people) doing 
> it,

I am doing that.  It's only 5-10 a day - routing them to the relevant
culprit is very little work.  It's also very little work for said culprits
to totally ignore said routing, which is a tougher problem.

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