John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote:
> Following on from yesterday's discussion about there not being much
> interaction between the kernel Bugzilla and the developers, I began
> wondering whether Bugzilla might be a bit too generic to be suited to
> kernel development, and that maybe a system written from the ground up
> for reporting kernel bugs would be better?
>
> I.E. I am prepared to write it myself, if people think it's
> worthwhile.
Quoting Linus (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103911905214446&w=2):
> And many things _can_ be done without throwing out old designs.
> Implementation improvements are quite possible without trying to make
> something totally new to the outside. ...
>
> Not throwing out the baby with the bath-water doesn't mean that you cannot
> improve the system. I'm only arguing against stupid people who think they
> need a revolution to improve - most real improvements are evolutionary.
I bet the thing to do is to spend some time as one of the
elves who make bugzilla.kernel.org work smoothly despite
the software; then figure out what incremental tweak you
can make to the software to make the elves' and users' lives
better.
-- Dan Kegel Linux User #78045 http://www.kegel.com- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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