linux-kernel - Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs

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Message-ID: <20080503112118.GK5838@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Sat, 3 May 2008 14:21:18 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	SL Baur <steve@...acs.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:13:21AM -0700, SL Baur wrote:
> On 5/2/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > Just seen in the kernel Bugzilla (driver anonymized to foobar):
> 
>  ... An all too common sequence
> 
> This is the kind of stuff that naturally happens when you tie performance
> to the progression of bug reports through bug tracking systems.  It's
> human nature.

That's a problem elsewhere, but not the problem here.

As far as I know this maintainer developed and maintaines this driver as 
a hobby.

> It's not good, but it's human nature.  This situation is *not* unique to Linux.
> 
> -sb (My day job is the care and feeding of a Fortune 50 company's internal bug
> tracking system)

cu
Adrian

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