> > Ok, responding so that the response appears also > > at the bug db is another story. > > That is possible to do - there's patches to Bugzilla that implement an > email interface, but it has some problems like the one you pointed out > above. One possiblility is to make people manually do something to the > email for each reply, but that's rather ugly. > > Hopefully we can discuss this more at OLS this year, and get a plan > going forward that people are happy with. I'm well aware that Bugzilla > is not the perefect tool, but I think it's better than what we had > before (yeah, I know some of us disagree), and is easy to change. > I'd rather start with something simple, and evolve it to the needs of > the community than try dumping something complex onto people up front. I did make the effort to make a dedicated bug database for kernel development in December last year. Do people actively hate it, or are they just not aware of it? :-). I got some very favourable comments early on, and a review in a Linux magazine, but haven't had much feedback recently about it. I was specifically trying to address the kind of problems we're seeing with Bugzilla... http://grabjohn.com/kernelbugdatabase John. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
