Kernel bug triage

[Eric Sandeen]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> Greetings. 
>>
>> I happened to see the other week that there are currently around 1600
>> open kernel bugs in bugzilla against currently supported Fedora
>> releases. :( The large majority of them are in NEW, and it's unclear
>> how many are at all useful to us. 
>>
>> I'd like to revisit the idea of getting a team of bugzappers working on
>> triaging the kernel bugs so we do know more about whats got useful info
>> and what does not and let kernel maintainers be able to more clearly
>> see what could be worked on. 
> 
> Team of bugzappers sounds ok, but I'd rather leverage the community
> at the lowest/earliest level, by giving the report at least the opportunity
> to say, for example, "this looks like a filesystem/ext4/xfs/network/scsi/whatever bug"

Er, to be clearer, I mean in a bugzilla-searchable & classifiable way.
Not just comments.

-Eric

> And then I'd see it, for the relevant buckets.
> 
> Today I don't even look, because it's just a giant stew.
> 
> So if we can't do better on the filing end, then maybe a team of bugzappers
> is warranted ... but can't we do better on the filing end?
> 
> If I had a filesystem-related bucket or buckets to look at for fedora kernel
> bugs, I'd do it.  Esp. if it sent me email.
> 
> -Eric