Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/26] Make reporting-bugs easier to grasp and yet more detailed & helpful

[Randy Dunlap]

On 11/13/20 2:33 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:37 +0100
> Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This series rewrites the "how to report bugs to the Linux kernel
>> maintainers" document to make it more straight forward and its essence
>> easier to grasp. At the same time make the text provide a lot more details
>> about the process in form of a reference section, so users that want or
>> need to know them have them at hand.
>>
>> The goal of this rewrite: improve the quality of the bug reports and
>> reduce the number of reports that get ignored. This was motivated by many
>> reports of poor quality the submitter noticed while looking after Linux
>> kernel regression tracking many moons ago.
> 
> So I've not had a chance to try to read through the whole thing again,
> will try to do so in the near future.
> 
> As for how to proceed...getting others to review this is going to be a bit
> of a challenge.  Perhaps the right approach is to just merge the new
> document under a new name - reporting-bugs-the-novel.txt or something -
> then try to get a few people to look at specific parts of it?  Once all
> seems well we can rename it over the old document and call it done.
> 
> Make sense?

I like that idea.

I don't plan to review the series in detail like I did with v1.

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~Randy