Re: regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jun 19 2007 - 10:43:21 EST


On Tuesday, 19 June 2007 02:28, Martin Bligh wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
> >> I'm seeing this long (198) thread and just have no idea how it has
> >> ended (wiki? hand-mailing?).
> >
> > I'm hoping it's not "ended".
> >
> > IOW, I really don't think we _resolved_ anything, although the work that
> > Adrian started is continuing through the wiki and other people trying to
> > track regressions, and that was obviously something good.
> >
> > But I don't think we really know where we want to take this thing in the
> > long run. I think everybody wants a better bug-tracking system, but
> > whether something that makes people satisfied can even be built is open.
> > It sure doesn't seem to exist right now ;)
>
> I know you hate bugzilla ... but at least I can try to make that bit
> of the process work better.
>
> The new version just rolled out does have a simple "regression" checkbox
> (and you can search on it), which will hopefully help people keep track
> of the ones already in bugzilla more easily.
>
> Thanks to Jon T, Dave J et al. for helping to figure out methods and
> implement them.

Yes, good work, thanks a lot for it! The new interface is much better and more
useful.

Greetings,
Rafael


PS
BTW, would that be possible to create the "Hibernation/Suspend" subcategory
of "Power Management" that I asked for some time ago, please? :-)

--
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth
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