linux-kernel - Re: Cleanup of Kernel Bugzilla

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:03:36 +0530
From:	"Gideon D'souza" <gidisrael@...il.com>
To:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
Cc:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cleanup of Kernel Bugzilla

>Why do you want an up to date list of kernel bugs?

Even I'm a newbie and was looking for the same thing. I read
eventually somewhere that bugzilla isn't maintained by kernel devs so
I entirely gave up trying to find a bug to adopt.

Many open source projects I've worked on (web frameworks mostly) have
a well maintained list of bugs and tag the right ones "newbie" or
"beginner suitable" and newbies can learn the ropes and get started
easy. Even chromium has a "GoodFirstBug" tag for newbies.

With the linux kernel not only doesn't anything exist, the project
itself is so bloody hard right, kernel programming, most of the
bugzilla bugs I can barely understand let alone even begin to deduce
what is going on. Now given that the list itself isn't maintained
makes things extremely hard.

Thanks @Nick for bringing this up. I would love to help you clean up
the bugs, give me an email of any ideas you have on how to start.

Regards,
Gideon

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote:
> Thanks that's fine , I am  new to kernel work , so a list of bugs would
> be very helpful in my helping out with debugging.
> Cheers Nick
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:18 PM, One Thousand Gnomes
> <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:45:47 -0400
>> Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Do any of you use the kernel Bugzilla? If you do I was wondering if we
>>> can clean it up.
>>
>> Developers are generally focussed on fixing bugs. Also the way bugzilla
>> works a lot of developers don't close the bugs and the originators never
>> get around to it.
>>
>> Now if you want to clean up bugzilla then what would be really useful
>> (and probably quite tedious) is a list of all the bugs which end either in
>>
>> - confirmation it is fixed, but the bug is not closed
>>
>> - confirmation that it cannot be reproduced, but the bug is not closed
>>
>> - with a question asking for more information which has had no reply in
>>   say 3 months
>>
>> Given lists of bugs in those categories I can then go and zap them.
>>
>> Alan
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