linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/26] Make reporting-bugs easier to grasp and yet more detailed

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Message-ID: <1f71cf5a-4afb-22b5-c528-aeb026fc6ce9@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 19:23:41 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/26] Make reporting-bugs easier to grasp and yet
 more detailed

On 11/9/20 3:01 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Lo!
> 
> Am 01.10.20 um 10:39 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
>> This series rewrites the "how to report bugs to the Linux kernel maintainers"
>> document to make it more straight forward and the essence easier to grasp. At
>> the same time make the text provide a lot more details about the process in form
>> of a reference section, so users that want or need to know them have them at
>> hand.
>>
>> The goal of this rewrite: improve the quality of the bug reports and reduce the
>> number of reports that get ignored. This was motivated by many reports of poor
>> quality the main author of the rewrite stumped upon when he was tracking
>> regressions.
> 
> So, now that those weeks with the merge window, the OSS & ELC Europe, and this US election thing are behind us it seems like a good time to ask:
> 
> How to move on with this?
> 
> @Jon: I'd be really appreciate to hear your thoughts on this.
> 
> @Randy: Thx again for all suggestions and pointing out many spelling mistakes, that helped a lot! You didn't reply to some of the patches, which made me wonder: did you not look at those (which is totally fine) or was there nothing to point out? And what I'd really like to know: what are you thinking about the whole thing?

Hi,

I looked at all of the patches in the series but did not have any comments
on the ones where I didn't reply.


thanks.

-- 
~Randy