Re: Dedicated kernel bug database

Eli Carter (eli.carter@inet.com)
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:49:56 -0600


Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:48:16AM -0600, Eli Carter wrote:
[snip]
> > >It could warn the user if they attach an un-decoded oops that their
> > >bug report isn't as useful as it could be, and if they mention a
> > >distribution kernel version, that it's not a tree that the developers
> > >will necessarily be familiar with
> > Perhaps a more generalized hook into bugzilla for 'validating' a bug
> > report, then code specific validators for kernel work?
>
> Its a nice idea, but I think it's a lot of effort to get it right,
> when a human can look at the dump, realise its not decoded, and
> send a request back in hardly any time at all.
> I also don't trust things like this where if something goes wrong,
> we could lose the bug report. People are also more likely to ping-pong
> ,argue or "how do I..." with a human than they are with an automated robot.

Either way, it isn't kernel specific.... which is what I was trying to
address. If it is valuable (which as you demonstrate is debatable,)
then it is valuable in bugzilla baseline, not just kernel-bugzilla.

Eli
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