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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:47:10 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/26] Make reporting-bugs easier to grasp and yet more detailed & helpful On 11/13/20 2:33 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:37 +0100 > Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info> wrote: > >> This series rewrites the "how to report bugs to the Linux kernel >> maintainers" document to make it more straight forward and its 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 submitter noticed while looking after Linux >> kernel regression tracking many moons ago. > > So I've not had a chance to try to read through the whole thing again, > will try to do so in the near future. > > As for how to proceed...getting others to review this is going to be a bit > of a challenge. Perhaps the right approach is to just merge the new > document under a new name - reporting-bugs-the-novel.txt or something - > then try to get a few people to look at specific parts of it? Once all > seems well we can rename it over the old document and call it done. > > Make sense? I like that idea. I don't plan to review the series in detail like I did with v1. -- ~Randy
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