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Linux Kernel Bugzilla Launched
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."
"Please let me or the supplied mailto URLs know of any problems you encounter, but please be patient with any inital teething problems ;-)"
and don't tell slashdot just yet
Another server bites the dust.
Linux's implementation of TCP/IP successfully connects to goatse.cx:80
Expected result : connection attempt should be rejected.
Yeah... easily searchable, centralised sources of information suck.
Many coders are disinclined to use bugs, because they don't necessarily improve code speed.
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)
Is he by chance related to Mary J. Blige?
Now maybe it could use a name. How about
Tux-zilla?
Bug 30 Owner: mbligh@aracnet.com (Martin J. Bligh)
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!!!
I think the 2.5 kernel is about ready for launch.
Just need to clear up this last bug.
Awwww, come on, it's been a DAY already! That's like, MONTHS in the real world!
/* Linus is The One
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).
Do you have Linux and a DotPal? Click here now!
Geez guys! Run it through the w3c validator!
We're suppossed to be promoting the standards right?
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Besides, if Microsoft did administer a public bug database, they would have to run it on some form of *NIX. Windows doesn't support enough processors!
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
query 'microsoft bug'
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 ? ? ?
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
Severity: Critical
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.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?