linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Update REPORTING-BUGS

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Message-ID: <20071125231337.GB5006@stusta.de>
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:13:37 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Update REPORTING-BUGS

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:00:28AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 of November 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > I don't care whether that's done with Bugzilla, some email based bug 
> > tracker like the Debian bug tracker, someone putting emails manually 
> > into some bug tracker like you are doing, or whatever else.
> 
> That last solution doesn't scale very well ...
> 
> How about using the system in which it's possible to report bugs using both
> email and a web interface?
> 
> We can request that the address of the bug tracker be added to the Cc lists of
> bug reports sent by email and we can make it resend reports filed with it to
> the appropriate mailing lists and with the appropriate email headers.  This is
> technically doable.

You are trying to solve something that is not a problem.

It does not matter which medium we choose for getting bug reports.

The only thing that matters is that we get bug reports resolved within a 
reasonable amount of time.

> Greetings,
> Rafael

cu
Adrian

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