Greetings. I happened to see the other week that there are currently around 1600 open kernel bugs in bugzilla against currently supported Fedora releases. :( The large majority of them are in NEW, and it's unclear how many are at all useful to us. I'd like to revisit the idea of getting a team of bugzappers working on triaging the kernel bugs so we do know more about whats got useful info and what does not and let kernel maintainers be able to more clearly see what could be worked on. So, the first question: Would this effort be worthwhile to kernel maintainers? If 'yes', or 'perhaps', I have a bunch more questions about how you folks would like to handle things: - Should bugs showing the user has a tainted kernel be simply closed? Or should reporter be asked to duplicate without the tainting module? Or both? :) - Should we ask folks for more info and close bugs after some predefined time? How long should that be? - Should feature requests be closed and reporter asked to file upstream? - Should bugs that contain patches get a PATCH subject line or be just asked to report upstream? - Is there a list of commands that would be helpful to run on any new reported issue? uname/lsmod/dmesg? Anything else? Would smolt profiles be of help? - Ideally I would like to sort bugs into large buckets based on subsystem, and then put keywords or something on them so subsystem maintainers could easily look at the bugs in their area. What would be a list of such subsystems that would be useful? - Would it be helpfull to add a keyword or whiteboard on what kernel version it was reported with? Then a search could find all bugs with that particular version (of course it would need to change if reporter updated, etc). - There seem to be a fair number of 'enable this option' or 'disable this option' type requests. Would they be good to mark ? I've started a draft page at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelTriage I'd like to flesh it out more and look at adding some canned responses there and then see how much interest there is to do this. Comments/edits/shouting welcome. ;) kevin
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