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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:47:10 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com> To: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> Cc: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>, "Oleg Verych" <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, "Diego Calleja" <diegocg@...il.com>, "Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@...hat.com>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? On 17/06/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>> And we should be aware that reverting is only a workaround for the real > >>> problem which lies in our bug handling. > >> ... > > > > And this is something I want to emphasize again. > > > > How can we make any progress with the real problem and not only the > > symptoms? > ... > > Perhaps make lists of > > - bug reports which never lead to any debug activity > (no responsible person/team was found, or a seemingly person/team > did not start to debug the report) > > - known regressions on release, > > - regressions that became known after release, > > - subsystems with notable backlogs of old bugs, > > - other categories? It is unworkable in wiki. There is a new regression field in bugzilla, but it is only the first step to implement regression tracking feature. > > Select typical cases from each categories, analyze what went wrong in > these cases, and try to identify practicable countermeasures. > > Another approach: Figure out areas where quality is exemplary and try > to draw conclusions for areas where quality is lacking. > -- > Stefan Richter > -=====-=-=== -==- =---= > http://arcgraph.de/sr/ > Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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