From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754145AbXD3XEV (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:04:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754106AbXD3XEV (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:04:21 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:43464 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753999AbXD3XEU (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:04:20 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 01:08:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20070426040806.GJ3468@stusta.de> <200704300009.07257.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070429233019.e782f949.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070429233019.e782f949.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705010108.35248.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, 30 April 2007 08:30, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:09:06 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > > On Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:52, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:18:10PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > [For example, you can create a bugzilla entry with a link to the lkml.org copy > > > > of the relevant message, so why to require the reporter to file the report with > > > > the bugzilla himself?] > > > > > > Last time I did this, bugzilla at osdl.org won't let me add original > > > reporter to goddamn CC list. It would be el neat, because not everyone > > > followed instructions and forwarding emails between reporter and > > > bugzilla sucks. > > > > That's related to what I said before. The requirement that the addresses on > > the CC list must be 'known' to bugzilla is deadly wrong in every case I can > > imagine. > > But unknown-to-bugzilla email addresses are accepted when they're sent to > bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org. This is why I'll very often switch a > bug report to email, copying individuals and mailing lists and > bugme-daemon. Then bugzilla just sits silently in the background recording > everything. If I wanted to do this, what would I have to do? I mean, assume I have a bug report that I want to send to someone whom the bugzilla doesn't like. What's the right procedure in such a case? > But once a bug has switched to email, it needs to stay there - it would be > bad if someone were to update the bug via the web UI because none of the > emailed participants would know of the update. So i'll often explicitly > ask "please follow up via emailed reply-to-all". > > It's not great, but there's certainly enough material here for people to get > in and work on the bug, should they be so inclined. > > My overall approach with this stuff is: short-term bugs are handled via email > and long-term ones are tracked in buzilla. I think that's reasonable, I've always done it this way, AFAIR. > Hence someone (Hi, Mom) needs to track all the emailed-only bug reports and get > them filed in bugzilla once they go stale. I can do that with suspend/hibernation-related bug reports, but sometimes I'm not sure who is the right person to notify in the first place.