On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:43:58PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > bugzilla.kernel.org is there but not many people look at it (which I > understand, using bugzilla is painfull, altough basing all your > development strategy around it _is_ rewarding, as happens in gnome/etc, > where the release announcement includes a list bugzilla numbers which > point to fixed bugs or "new feature" bugs in the case of new > features).
As one of those who initially thought "great" about bugzilla for kernel stuff, and then got rather annoyed with it, I think I can talk about why bugzilla doesn't work for kernel developers. * The most obvious problem is that it requires you to go to the website before you can do anything with a bug. * Bug reporters appear to report a bug and run away - attempting to get more information from them sometimes resorts in silence until you threaten to close the bug, or do close the bug. * Bug categories aren't explained well enough to allow users to determine the correct category. Eg, PCMCIA network card - should that be networking or PCMCIA (where the bugzilla PCMCIA category is actually *only* the PCMCIA core and not any of the drivers.) Overall, my experience with the kernel bugzilla has been rather unproductive. Most bugs which came in my direction weren't for things I could resolve. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
