From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264876AbTF0V7Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:59:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264873AbTF0V7P (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:59:15 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:24491 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264870AbTF0V7K (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:59:10 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:11:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: "David S. Miller" cc: mbligh@aracnet.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20030627.150248.08328103.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20030627.143738.41641928.davem@redhat.com> <20030627.150248.08328103.davem@redhat.com> 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, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Davide Libenzi > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:02:00 -0700 (PDT) > > David, your method is the dream of every software developer. > > It is not a dream, it works perfectly fine and has done so > for 5+ years of Linux maintainence. > > To make these things scale you MUST push the work out to other people, > you absolutely cannot centralize. And here we're pushing it out to > the bug reporters, just like we push the work of patch maintainence to > the patch submitters. > > If they don't care about the bug and won't retransmit when their > stuff isn't being looked at, their bug isn't worth being looked > at. David, I'm not willing to waste both precious time arguing on this but I will leave you question to think about. Is a bug report more useful for the user of a "system" or for the "system" itself ? - Davide