Re: How to improve PCI bug tracking?

From: Lukas Wunner
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 01:15:04 EST


On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 06:29:15PM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 1/18/2017 5:53 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > I want to improve PCI bug tracking. It feels like our bugs don't get
> > the attention they need, and I'm soliciting ideas for how to improve
> > this.
> >
> > Current situation:
> >
> > - People often report bugs via email to linux-pci. I think this
> > is good because everybody can see it.
> >
> > - Even after an email report, I often request a bugzilla because
> > (1) it helps keep things from being forgotten, (2) it's a
> > convenient place to store bulky data, and (3) I like to have a
> > bugzilla URL to include in the changelog of a patch that fixes the
> > bug.
> >
> > - Sometimes people open a bugzilla directly. I get email about
> > these (along with one or two other people), but this is sort of a
> > problem because linux-pci never sees it, sometimes I miss it, and
> > things tend to languish.
> >
> > - Discussion on a bugzilla is only seen by people listed in the
> > bugzilla, not on linux-pci.
> >
> > I'm contemplating changing this so the bugzilla mail would also go to
> > linux-pci.
>
> I have seen this happening on linux-scsi.
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg103272.html

Same for dri-devel@ / nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Go for it.

Lukas