[Intel-gfx] i915 ERRORs and WARN_ON()s

[Florian Zumbiehl]

Hi,

> I fully understand your frustration with all this - you have a bug and
> it's annoying and creating bugzilla accounts all over the internet is
> indeed not a good way to do things. Unfortunately bugzilla is the
> standard, and we don't have the manpower to write our own, nor do the
> freedesktop.org admins (who's infrastructure we're using, and who are
> all volunteers) have time to transition to other systems.

I mean, no clue about the funding situation, but how about Intel throwing
some money at this?

> Also we're positively flooded in bug reports and patch mails (100-200
> mails/day on intel-gfx, probably 100 new bugs/months in bugzilla), and
> we do expect reporters to e.g. be able to install from source, provide
> logs and tons of other things. If creating an account is too much
> work, then it's much better to file with someone else who takes care
> of the triaging for you (distro or similar), or hire a contractor to
> fix your problem for you (there are tons). Bug reports on the m-l that
> aren't resolved immediately by pointing at an existing patch are
> pretty much guaranteed to get lost.
> 
> Again, I fully understand your frustration, but please also take into
> account the constraints on our side.

Well, you asked that I try the nightly tree because you thought that bug
should be fixed. So I did, not knowing what I was signing up for. I guess
I'll just forget about it then.

> I expect that the technical discussion on the bug itself will continue
> in bugzilla. And of course if you want to improve this, help with bug
> triaging or anything else then that's very much welcome, but
> complaining that there's not an endless supply of free labour that
> makes everything work perfectly on both sides is not productive.

I'm more getting the impression that it's systematically broken with no
incentive to fix it as it's somebody else's problem?

Regards, Florian