[Lustre-discuss] LBUG on client: Found existing inode ...?in?lock

[Troy Benjegerdes]

I agree that hiding bugs is quite bad.

<rant>
I'm going to be an open source curmudgeon for a minute and say that if
Sun/CFS wants to track customer-specific, sensitive data bugs, they need
to have a separate system and pay someone to make sure that all internal
bugs are santized and put into the open source project bug tracker.

Sun/CFS gets a huge mindshare and market acceptance benefit from the
open source project. Hiding bugs WILL kill that mindshare and
acceptance benefit. If Lustre isn't a full first class public open
source project, all the new and really innovative work will get done
on competing open source filesystems.

</rant>

Now back to real work ;)

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:40:54PM +0200, Erich Focht wrote:
> Thanks, Brian.
> 
> A more general comment: what is the use of invisible bugs, anyway? I
> suppose the bug has been set "private" by the reporter. Wouldn't it
> actually make sense to have all bugs open, such that others are warned
> of the issue? Guess if somebody doesn't want to disclose the company
> on behalf of which the bug was reported, a mechanism for anonymizing the
> reporter would make more sense. Anyway, I feel like hiding bugs is bad
> in an open source project.
> 
> Regards,
> Erich
> 
> On Mittwoch 20 August 2008, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 16:47 +0200, Erich Focht wrote:
> > > 
> > > Thanks but... I don't seem to be authorized to see that bug (?).
> > 
> > Oh, yes.  :-(  I tend to forget to look at the privacy settings on bugs.
> > 
> > > Is that bug fixed in 1.6.5.1?
> > 
> > No.  Reported on 1.6.5 in fact.
> > 
> > > Any advice resulting from its content?
> > 
> > None yet.  It's been escalated to engineering though.
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software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer:

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because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why
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