linux-kernel - Re: RFC: building a regression tracking bot for Linux kernel development

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Message-ID: <1390e998-4847-eebf-1d7b-e9cb6625cff7@leemhuis.info>
Date:   Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:34:29 +0200
From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        ksummit@...ts.linux.dev, workflows@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: building a regression tracking bot for Linux kernel
 development

On 22.04.21 16:51, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:16:40AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
>> That's it already. The regression was tracked with:
> 
>>  * minimal overhead for the reporter
>>  * no additional overhead for the developers – only something they ought
>> to do already became more important
> 
> For things that are caught by the various automated systems the
> deduplication might get annoying - even for the systems with a human in
> the loop it's very common for things that the automated systems pick up
> to end up getting reported several times over due to things like race
> conditions in the reporting process.  We'll have to see how that goes,
> it might be possible to automate some of it.

Yeah, good point, thx for pointing it out, will keep an eye on this
aspect to make sure it doesn't become a big problem.

Ciao, Thorsten