linux-kernel - Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

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Date:   Sun, 2 Oct 2022 20:17:29 +0000
From:   "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@....com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "regressions@...ts.linux.dev" <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        ksummit@...ts.linux.dev,
        Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
Subject: Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla
 blues"



On 10/2/22 18:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Artem,
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 2:49 PM Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@....com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 02:58:04PM +0000, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
>> Bugzilla gets around two dozen bug reports weekly which encompass at
>> most thirty emails, which equals to four emails daily on average.
>
> So we're discussing about the fate of a tool through which on average
> four bugs per day are submitted (some of which are not very useful
> due to lack of information)? A tool which is not maintained upstream?
> Perhaps that's enough reason to just kill the tool, so no one has to
> worry about it, or maintain it?

Yep, there are not that many savvy Linux users out there. Filing a good
bug report takes a lot of experience to be honest.

And most bugs reports in Bugzilla are semi-automatically closed (by me)
because they are about amdgpu and i915 which have their own bug
trackers. Without such reports the volume of bug reports is basically
halved.

>
> However, at four emails per day, you might as well just subscribe the
> subsystem mailing lists (each of which would receive only a fraction
> of that, right?).  Maintainers and several developers won't even notice
> that minor increase in the number of daily emails received, although
> they might still complain about the contents ;-)
> And that still needs someone to keep the tool working..

Oh, God, finally.

Regards,
Artem