Re: Does the bug tracker actually work?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> writes: 
> Btw. does Bugzilla has any way to kick of stupid users ?
> I just spend over half an hour deleting really stupid bug reports in GTop
> and are kind of annoyed because of this.
>

They could just make a new account under a different name.
 
> I think we also need to change our policy on reporting bugs like most other
> projects do this.
> 
> There must be some way to automatically filter out all "it crashed" and other
> crap and just let real bugs go into the bug tracker.  IMO the new bug tracking
> system needs to be changed in a way where the maintainer needs to approve all
> bug reports before they go into the tracker.
> 
> At the moment the bug tracker is pretty much useless because of all this
> crap in it.
> 

Bugs go in to Bugzilla as NEW and you have to process them and mark
them ASSIGNED to someone. You can query for NEW/ASSIGNED bugs.

Havoc