why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:26 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Right now, rebases to newer kernel releases is the single provider
> of the majority of bugfixes we get reported.  If we stopped doing
> that, we'd pretty much be giving up all hope of fixing kernel bugs.

Er, I think you mean "bug closures" not necessarily "fixes"?

We close a whole load of kernel bugs with a message along the lines of
"we rebased the kernel and have no clue if we addressed this bug, but
we're closing it anyway -- please reopen if it's not fixed".

Do we have a clue how many of those bugs remain closed because the bug
is actually fixed, and how many of them remain closed because the
reporter never looked back after filing it?

(Not that I'm arguing against this way of closing bugs -- with the
kwality of bug reporting and follow-up we get, I think it's the right
thing for us to do. But let's be careful about what the numbers mean.)

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dwmw2