Hi Artem,
On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 11:54 PM Artem S. Tashkinov <aros@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's easy to join an existing bug report. Tell me how can I join an
> existing email thread without being first subscribed to it? I certainly
> can, absolute most people will not be able to.
lore.kernel.org
> What about sending large dump files? Should everyone on the mailing list
> receive it?
post a link
> A bug report is a simple plain list of messages in a single place which
> could be read with a web browser. An email thread is anything but.
lore.kernel.org
> Searching through many emails at once? Good luck with that.
lore.kernel.org
> Replying to a particular email? Good luck with that.
lore.kernel.org
> It looks like you're under the impression that every Linux user who is
> willing to ever use Linux must:
>
> 1) Subscribe to _all_ the existing mailing lists (just in case - what if
> you need to work on something which was started by someone else)
lore.kernel.org
> 2) Know the email etiquette
Just Be Polite
> 3) Learn to be persistent and resend (an unknown number of times) your
> concerns hoping they will eventually be addressed.
>
> Bugzilla: sign up once. Follow up. If you file a dupe, hopefully it will
> be marked as a dupe. Everyone's happy. No particular skills, email
> clients, formatting, referencing, etc. etc. etc.
Having at last the skill to provide a good rebug port would be nice...
Now, back to work. The merge window has opened, so there will be
bugs to report and/or fix...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
-- Linus Torvalds
