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Date:	Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	w@....eu, rjw@...k.pl, tilman@...p.cc, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	lkml@....ca, jesper.juhl@...il.com, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:18:31 -0700

> That being said..  four or five years ago, developers would often work
> closely with the reporter working out why the reporter's failure was
> occurring.  Several days of back-and-forth.

The ratio of bug reports to developers was significantly different
back then.

I pine for the "good ole' days" of kernel development sometimes too,
but I try to be realistic and understand why things are different now.
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