On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:32:19 +0000 Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There's another issue I want to raise concerning bugzilla. We have the > classic case of "not enough people reading bugzilla bugs" - which is one > of the biggest problems with bugzilla. Virtually no one in the ARM > community looks for ARM bugs in bugzilla. Nor should they. > Let's not forget that it would be a waste of time for people to manually > check bugzilla for ARM bugs. There's soo few people reporting ARM bugs > into bugzilla that a weekly manual check by every maintainer would just > return the same old boring results for months and months at a time. I screen all bugzilla reports. 100% of them. - I'll try to establish whether it is a regression - I'll solicit any extra information which I believe the reveloper will need - I'll ensure that an appropriate developer has seen the report And yes, the number of arm-specific reports in there is very small. > It would be far more productive if the ARM category was deleted from > bugzilla and the few people who use bugzilla reported their bugs on the > mailing list. We've a couple of thousand people on the ARM kernel > mailing list at the moment - that's 3 orders of magnitude more of eyes > than look at bugzilla. Is that linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? If so, MANITAINERS claims that it is subscribers-only. That would cause some bug reporters to give up and go away. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
