From: Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:42:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fzlbasoj.fsf@tnuctip.rychter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030712222222.01089864.davem@redhat.com> (David S. Miller's message of "Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:22:22 -0700")
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>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@redhat.com> writes:
David> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 10:07:42 -0700
David> Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> wrote:
>> Interesting you should think you're 'rewarding' people. I thought
>> your goal was to have fun working on cool software and making it
>> better. I also thought I had the same goal as a bug-reporter.
>>
>> When I write software, I care about every bug report and consider
>> people doing the reporting a very valuable resource.
David> The whole game changes when you are stretched as thinly as I am.
David> Scaling becomes everything, and nitpicking through vague and
David> poorly composed bug reports is an absolute waste of my time as
David> networking subsystem maintainer.
[...]
Couldn't agree more. Especially after having benefited from your code so
much (starting back in the early sparc days...).
David> Having me pillage through a bug database is a poor use of my
David> time and capabilities. And all of my time is spent reviewing
David> patches and dealing with the properly composed bug reports
David> anyways, so even if I enjoyed pillaging through badly made bug
David> reports I couldn't.
David> People are assuming that just because _I_ don't want to work on
David> the bad bug reports that I think nobody should. It's the exact
David> opposite.
[...]
Thanks for this explanation -- I responded because I was worried you
were convincing people that it's a good thing if bug reports get
dropped, because the really important ones will float to the top anyway.
--J.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-13 5:27 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
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 [this message]
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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