Hi Artem,
On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 2:49 PM Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The current ill-maintained semi-functional bugzilla has proven to be a
> ton more useful than random mailing lists no sane person can keep track
> of. Bug "reports", i.e. random emails are neglected and forgotten. LKML
> is the worst of them probably.
Such a statement really needs to be backed by numbers...
> Let's operate with some examples:
>
> Bugzilla gets around two dozen bug reports weekly which encompass at
> most thirty emails, which equals to four emails daily on average.
This immediately debunks your statement above.
$ git log v5.19..linus/master | grep Fixes: | wc -l
2928
So that's 46 bugs fixed per _day_. Most of them not reported
through bugzilla...
> LKML alone sees up to a hundred emails _daily_.
>
> Getting worked up about it? I'm dumbfounded to be honest.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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