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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, davidel@xmailserver.org,
	mbligh@aracnet.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org
Date: 29 Jun 2003 00:46:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056844013.6778.42.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030628.162002.48522400.davem@redhat.com>

On Sul, 2003-06-29 at 00:20, David S. Miller wrote:
> Now imagine if you invested this effort in educating people
> and getting them to be better bug reporters, sending the
> right info to the right place?

For IDE the statistical value of being able to go digging through old
data has been more than worth the effort. Similarly writing tools to do
the grovelling has a clear value.

> You're grovelling at the bottom of the barrel, it's time to start
> skimming from the top instead.  Things that matters will come back, it
> doesn't disappear.

I'm trying to turn grovelling into barrels into an automated process.
Thats much more useful and also entertaining (things like oops matching
and gdb trace matching turn out to be interesting little problems of
their own)

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-28 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-27  5:30 networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org David S. Miller
2003-06-27  5:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27  5:47   ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27  7:59     ` Matti Aarnio
2003-06-27  8:00       ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 15:00       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27 14:34     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27 14:56       ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-27 21:37         ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 21:54           ` Ben Greear
2003-06-27 21:54             ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 22:15               ` Ben Greear
2003-06-27 22:19                 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 22:36                   ` Ben Greear
2003-06-28  0:00                     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-28  0:15                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-28  0:32                         ` David S. Miller
2003-06-28  0:19                       ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28  0:27                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-28 19:20                           ` Alan Cox
2003-06-29  0:40                             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-29  0:44                             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27 23:08                   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28  0:21                     ` David S. Miller
2003-06-28 19:19                       ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28 22:03                         ` David S. Miller
2003-06-28 23:15                           ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28 23:20                             ` David S. Miller
2003-06-28 23:46                               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-12 17:07                           ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-13  4:15                             ` Greg KH
2003-07-14 20:25                               ` USB bugs (was: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org) Jan Rychter
     [not found]                                 ` <20030714230236.GA7195@kroah.com>
2003-07-15 20:24                                   ` Jan Rychter
2003-07-13  5:22                             ` networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org David S. Miller
2003-07-13  5:42                               ` Jan Rychter
2003-06-27 22:02           ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-27 21:31             ` Ben Collins
2003-06-27 23:25               ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-27 22:30                 ` Ben Collins
2003-06-28  0:32                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 19:26                     ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28  0:38                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-28  1:14                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-28  2:13                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-28  2:35                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-28  6:08                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-28  3:27                       ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-27 22:02             ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 22:11               ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-27 22:13                 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 18:50     ` Ben Greear
2003-06-27 21:44       ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 22:47         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-27 22:53           ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28  0:44             ` David S. Miller
2003-06-28  0:09           ` David S. Miller
2003-06-27 23:04         ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28  0:19           ` David S. Miller
2003-06-29 21:15           ` David S. Miller
2003-06-29 21:45             ` Andries Brouwer
2003-06-29 21:51               ` David S. Miller
2003-06-29 22:49                 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-06-29 23:21                   ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-29 22:07             ` Alan Cox
2003-06-29 22:13               ` David S. Miller
2003-06-30  2:35                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-07-20 16:46                   ` Petr Baudis
2003-06-27 15:25 John Bradford
2003-06-27 16:18 Nicolas Mailhot
2003-06-28  8:00 John Bradford
2003-06-28  8:10 John Bradford
2003-06-28 22:37 John Bradford
2003-06-29 22:28 John Bradford

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