Linux Kernel Bugzilla Launched 187
paskie writes "Martin J. Bligh of IBM announced
launch of a Bugzilla bug tracking
database for 2.5 linux kernel series - it's at bugme.osdl.org. Finally there will be
some possibility to easily keep track of known bugs without being subscribed to
thousand of mailing lists or googling to death. According to the relevant lkml
thread, kernel developers will still prefer discussions to happen on the
mailing lists, though. The Bugzilla server
and connection is donated by OSDL and IBM
folks administer the database."
Did we listen? No (Score:5, Funny)
and don't tell slashdot just yet
Another server bites the dust.
First Bug! (Score:4, Funny)
Linux's implementation of TCP/IP successfully connects to goatse.cx:80
Expected result : connection attempt should be rejected.
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Bugs (Score:3, Funny)
Whether or not bugs will accelerate any particular program has to be determined
case-by-case. And for most software, the deciding factor should be whether bugs
will simplify development and correctness (theoretically they can, but lots of
developers don't understand bugs and use them wrong).
My company has some realtime networked game for which bugs were an impediment.
Both the rate/duration of screen refreshs and network transmissions were low
enough so they didn't usually interfere with each other in the same bug. But
using bug-safe versions of standard library functions was degrading every other
part of the program with constant locking/unlocking.
So no bugs was faster. (Maybe cleverer people could've made special bug-unsafe
alternative functions to use in contexts where we know inter-bug race conditions
won't occur. But munging around with 2 standard libraries in one program is
riskier than we'd like to deal with)
Real Love (Score:0, Funny)
Is he by chance related to Mary J. Blige?
What will this repository be called? (Score:3, Funny)
Tux-zilla?
Already with the funny? (Score:5, Funny)
Please enter
Exact Kernel version: 2.5.7
Distribution: red hat
Hardware Environment: pc
Software Environment: linux
Problem Description: RMS is too smelly - What do I do?
Steps to reproduce: No god no!!!
almost ready to ship.... (Score:4, Funny)
Just need to clear up this last bug [osdl.org].
Re:Already with the funny? (Score:5, Funny)
This 'bug' can't be confirmed on any version of 2.5.
Possible problem: submitter is a troll and/or moron.
suggested course of action: delete (bug report and troll account).
Re:Did we listen? No (Score:5, Funny)
It has a European accent. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A public database of errors? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, right now all MS has to do to compile a page of reasons to switch is type "linux bugs" into Google:
(Yeah, I know this is a troll - but hey, I'm bored).
What about bugzilla for bugzilla? (Score:4, Funny)
We're suppossed to be promoting the standards right?
Re:A public database of errors? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A public database of errors? (Score:3, Funny)
return: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,280,000. Search took 0.21 seconds.
yeah. they have a whopping 170,000 less PUBLIC bugs than we do. damn. now think about the fact that all of our bugs can be SEEN and actually FIXED by people not being paid by a cartel/conglamorate/*instert bad word thingy here* (whos best interests it is in to hide such things.)
wow they must really have us beat.
anybody wanna do a search on security flaws ? ? ?
Re:What about bugzilla for bugzilla? (Score:3, Funny)
bug (Score:3, Funny)
Subject: Bugzilla slow
Comment: Guys, I just found out from Slashdot, but your site is really really slow. You should do something about that. To help you, I am registering a bug for each page I find to be slow.