PR backlog (was: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)
Mark Linimon
linimon at lonesome.com
Fri Jun 1 10:31:52 UTC 2018
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 09:04:25PM -0700, K. Macy wrote:
> This is where culling older bug reports comes in.
Well, even with doing that, the sheer number really doesn't help the
S/N that much. It may make someone a bit neurotic like me feel a bit
better, but that's all.
> However, when I've tried wading through the bug system to find things
> that I might be able to fix, I have not found it easy at all.
To me, reasoning about 'search' is the riqht direction to go. (Apologies
to folks for the long URLs, but I would rather not hide the search terms
here.)
We've been inconsistent about applying the 'patch-ready' tag to indicate
something is ready to go, but here's the current list for the Base System:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=patch-ready&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=232422&product=Base%20System&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
8 bugs. Not that bad.
The 'patch' tag by itself produces a much less satisfying result:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=patch&keywords_type=allwords&limit=0&list_id=232422&order=bug_id%20DESC&product=Base%20System&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
600 bugs. Moderately overwhelming.
Narrowing it down to just the 'kern' component only helps a little:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=kern&keywords=patch&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=232433&product=Base%20System&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
300 bugs.
Looking for tag 'regression' within that is more satisfying:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=kern&keywords=regression&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=232433&product=Base%20System&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
82 bugs.
tl:dr; expecting any sane person to 'browse' thousands of entries of
any kind from _any_ kind of list, is itself madness. OTOH myself, and
koobs and others, are willing to work on the search metadata to at
least make 'search' reasonable.
[obv. disclaimer: I am only citing statistics for Bugzilla here, not
Phabricator; I simply know it better.]
mcl
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