Re: Dedicated kernel bug database

Eli Carter (eli.carter@inet.com)
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:43:21 -0600


Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:19:03PM -0800, Hanna Linder wrote:
>
> > Im trying to help make it easier for such people to get a list
> > of bugs to start working on. If it looks like everything already
> > has an owner it looks like there is nothing to do.
>
> Just because a bug is 'owned' does not stop someone else working on it.
> That would be silly. All the owner field says is, "if someone is
> interested in this bug, and they happen to fix before $owner does,
> $owner would like to know about it." This way $owner can reject bad
> fixes, or get further clues as to whats actually causing the problem.
>
> > Hanna (obviously not a bugzilla user before)
>
> Obviously 8-)

I'm new to bugzilla too... I noticed there is a link "Give me a clue
about how to use this form." I think that needs to be at the top of the
query form, with a nice '?' graphic beside it. I suspect that would
help a lot.

Eli
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