linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <20080328173642.GG32200@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:36:42 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@...com.pl>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:47:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > 
> > > Also, Rafael - do these reminder emails also go to the people who are 
> > > mentioned in the regressions (especially people who are set up as being 
> > > "handled-by" or having patches for the problem)? 
> > 
> > No, they don't.  I need to do some scriptwork to make that happen.
> 
> It would be good. Right now I know for a fact that a lot of people read 
> LKML with various filters in place (or just very spottily), so I have a 
> feeling that while people try to track regressions, many people are 
> probably less aware of these things than they should be. And sometimes the 
> "handled-by" ends up being inaccurate (maybe somebody replied to the 
> original problem, but it became obvious that it was somewhere else, and 
> they remain "handled-by" even though the person doesn't actually handle 
> it).
> 
> It would probably also make sense to add some of the bigger subsystem 
> maintainers to the Cc (and/or with a mailing list for regressions?)
>...

When I tracked regressions I also Cc'ed all submitters, maintainers of 
all affected subsystems, and the people who said they'd handle the 
reports.

The problem I ran into was vger dropping emails with >= 30 recipients, 
which meant that I had to split the regression list into half a dozen 
emails (splitted by the area of the regressions) when I tracked at about
30 regressions.

But that was one year ago when we had only half as many regressions per 
release as they do now, with 2.6.25 we had a peak of 66 pending 
regressions...

> 			Linus

cu
Adrian

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