linux-kernel - Re: RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

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Message-ID: <20210323122025.77888b49@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:20:25 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ksummit <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs
 and regressions

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:25:15 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info> wrote:

> I agree to the last point and yeah, maybe regressions are the more
> important problem we should work on – at least from the perspective of
> kernel development.  But from the users perspective (and
> reporting-issues.rst is written for that perspective) it feel a bit
> unsatisfying to not have a solution to query for existing report,
> regressions or not. Hmmmm...

I think the bulk of user issues are going to be regressions. Although you
may be in a better position to know for sure, but at least for me, wearing
my "user" hat, the thing that gets me the most is upgrading to a new kernel
and suddenly something that use to work no longer does. And that is the
definition of a regression. My test boxes still run old distros (one is
running fedora 13). These are the boxes that catch the most issues, and if
they do, they are pretty much guaranteed to be a regression.

I like the "linux-regressions" mailing list idea.

-- Steve