From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264424AbTF0Ono (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:43:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264434AbTF0Onn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:43:43 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:22668 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264424AbTF0Oni (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:43:38 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:56:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: "Martin J. Bligh" cc: "David S. Miller" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org In-Reply-To: <21740000.1056724453@[10.10.2.4]> Message-ID: References: <20030626.223002.21926109.davem@redhat.com><18330000.1056692768@[10.10.2.4]> <20030626.224739.88478624.davem@redhat.com> <21740000.1056724453@[10.10.2.4]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > No. If you don't want to participate, that's fine, but I'm not going > to prevent other people from doing so. > > If you want me to forward the bugs to any given list, I'll do that. > If you want to just tell people to file them to a list, that's fine too. > But I won't destroy the generic model just because you don't like it. A bug tracking system stick you on a bug and makes all this to look like real work, that's why maybe David does not like it :) Kidding ;) The good of a bug tracking system against the mailing list is that bugs do survive in a bug tracking system, while they usually vanish for normal underlooked posts. Many ppl posting bugs are not members of the mailing list and they are not usually setting up a repost timer if the bug does not get answered. I believe that it should be both ways. Posts on the mailing list helps main maintainers to lower the load by allowing others to take on bugs, while the bug tracking helps unresolved bugs to stick. - Davide