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  • Revising the kernel team's bug handling policy

    From Ben Hutchings@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 15 23:20:01 2022
    I've been reviewing the Debian Kernel Handbook for outdated text, and
    found some problems with the bug handling policy.

    Since this is supposed to be authoritative, not just informative, I'm requesting team members to review this before I make the changes. I
    don't think there should be anything controversial there though.

    The main changes I want to make are:
    - De-emphasising bugzilla.kernel.org as upstream bug tracker, and
    referring to mailing lists and bug trackers in general
    - Saying that where the upstream developers expect bug reports to
    a mailing list, it's the maintainer's (rather than submitter's)
    reponsibility to forward it there
    - Documenting how to find the mailing list(s) or bug tracker

    The changes are can be seen at: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/kernel-handbook/-/merge_requests/3

    Ben.

    --
    Ben Hutchings
    Unix is many things to many people,
    but it's never been everything to anybody.

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  • From Ben Hutchings@21:1/5 to Ben Hutchings on Mon Oct 3 01:10:01 2022
    On Fri, 2022-07-15 at 23:18 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
    I've been reviewing the Debian Kernel Handbook for outdated text, and
    found some problems with the bug handling policy.

    Since this is supposed to be authoritative, not just informative, I'm requesting team members to review this before I make the changes. I
    don't think there should be anything controversial there though.

    As I haven't seen any responses to this, I assume everyone accepts the
    policy change and I have merged them today.

    Ben.

    The main changes I want to make are:
    - De-emphasising bugzilla.kernel.org as upstream bug tracker, and
    referring to mailing lists and bug trackers in general
    - Saying that where the upstream developers expect bug reports to
    a mailing list, it's the maintainer's (rather than submitter's)
    reponsibility to forward it there
    - Documenting how to find the mailing list(s) or bug tracker

    The changes are can be seen at: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/kernel-handbook/-/merge_requests/3

    Ben.


    --
    Ben Hutchings
    Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class.
    - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette'

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