Re: Linux 2.6.21

[Michal Piotrowski]

On 30/04/07, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Right. Simply because these lists are assembled by someone
> >
> > - who knows how to pick that reports from the mailinglists
> > - who knows how to sort them in a useful way
> > - who knows how to add the relevant folks on CC
>
> That all needs to be done by someone initially yes. But then tracking what happens
> afterwards is something that can be distributed. A difficult bug can take a long
> time to resolve and generate a lot of messages; you don't want to require
> the initial sorter to handle all that too.
>
> It's much more scalable to let the developers update the state themselves
> then once they handle the bug.

The actual list of known regressions is wiki based. Everyone can
update bug status, add references etc.

> From time to time, I'll send this list to right people.

> -Andi

Regards,
Michal

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Michal K. K. Piotrowski
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