On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:33:51AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, David Dawes wrote: > > >>------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-07-11 06:30 ------- > >>So why this bug is closed? This is METABUG > > > >It is closed because it is neither a bug report or a submission, and is > >irrelevant to anyone tracking bugs for a release. This type of stuff > >belongs in your wiki. > > I totally agree here. People need to stop abusing bugzilla as a > mailing list or wiki substitute. Bugzilla is for tracking > defects, not for following the development of a driver or driver > feature for 12 months through to completion. The whole concept > of a "METABUG" whatever that is, is flawed.
I can concede that the Wiki can be a better place for this sort of things, but bear in mind that the Wiki has not always been around, and definetely wasn't around when this specific bug was opened. > Create a mailing list for mach64-dri, or discuss it here please. > Another similar bug is the Radeon IGP DRI bug report which has > gone way out of hand IMHO and turned into a huge neverending > mailing list substitute and/or web based tech support forum. > > http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314 > > That's just rediculous bugzilla abuse. I'm closing that one out > too, and asking people to continue their endless discussion on > the mailing lists, as it is equally abusive of bugzilla as the > Mach64 DRI "metabug". > > Please use dri-users and/or dri-devel for such discussions, not > bugzilla. I fail to understand how these bugs qualify as "abusive" behavior! Although you take it as flawed concept the fact remains that "metabugs" are widely used in several other open-source projects. Perhaps the concept doesn't fit your or David's view of what the bugzilla database should be - I'm fine with that -, but from that to "abusive" goes a _great_ distance, Mike. It's not a black and white world we're living in - some people use mailing list as a bug database, while other do the opposite - so don't blame people for using gray. Anyway, I invite anybody interested to copy the relevant pieces of information in those bugs to the Wiki (or just make a link and start from there). I don't know exactly what's the status of the Wiki's email notification mechanism, but I can look into that. Jose Fonseca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
