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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:31:04 -0700
From: "Natalie Protasevich" <protasnb@...il.com>
To: "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@...gc.ca>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@...il.com>,
"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>,
"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
"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>
Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?
On 6/18/07, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] <Vincent.Fortier1@...gc.ca> wrote:
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org
> > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org] De la part de
> > Andrew Morton
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:15:15 +0200 Stefan Richter
> > <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Tested-by
> >
> > Tested-by would be good too. Because over time, we will
> > generate a list of people who own the relevant hardware and
> > who are prepared to test changes.
>
> Why not include a user-space tool that, when invoked, if you agree to
> send personnal info, sends your hardware vs driver info to a web
> database + your email address (maybie even you .config, etc..) ... In
> case of help for testing new patches/finding a bug/etc.. your email
> could be used by maintainers to ask for help...
>
> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log
> > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test
> > your changes for you.
>
> You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie even when ever a
> patchset is being proposed a mail could be sent to appropriate
> hardware/or feature pseudo-auto-generated mailing-list?
>
> On lkml I mostly try to follow patches/bugs associated with hardware I
> use. Why not try to automate the process and get more testers in?
>
I think this is an excellent point. One data point could be a field in
bugzilla to input the hardware information. Simple query can select
common hardware and platform. So far it's not working when hardware is
just mentioned in the text part.
--Natalie
> - vin
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