[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue May 9 17:54:51 UTC 2006


Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> * If a bug isn't worth a few minutes of your time to create a bugzilla 
>> account, the bug must not be that important.  This (IMO, small) barrier 
>> weeds out frivolous reports.  Easier bug reporting is nice, but not at 
>> the expense of receiving *good* bug reports.
> 
> I wonder if we might consider separating bugs into classes.  Anonymous 
> bugs get lower priority, but they're great data points, especially if they 
> contain largely similar information.  If you get 5000 bug reports on the 
> same component, you know it's bad, but you don't necessary need to troll 
> through all 5000.

Good point, such anonymous bug report data may be useful after all.  If 
done this way, we'd have to be careful to make sure users don't end up 
thinking the anonymous reports are good enough and stop using bugzilla 
altogether.

-- Rex




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