Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 15:53:37 EST


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:18:31 -0700

> That being said.. four or five years ago, developers would often work
> closely with the reporter working out why the reporter's failure was
> occurring. Several days of back-and-forth.

The ratio of bug reports to developers was significantly different
back then.

I pine for the "good ole' days" of kernel development sometimes too,
but I try to be realistic and understand why things are different now.
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