linux-kernel - Re: A quick "Regression tracking: state of the union early 2024" from my side

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:22:17 +0100
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Cc: Linux kernel regressions list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A quick "Regression tracking: state of the union early 2024" from
 my side

Hi,

On 1/12/24 21:16, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 08:22:39AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> ## The long story short
>>
>> I'm not really happy with my performance wrt to my regression tracking
>> efforts during the last year. To counter that, I've already shifted my
>> focus somewhat ~in October. With the new year I will shift it some more.
>> Top-priority will be "make regzbot more useful for kernel subsystem
>> maintainers" from now on. My tracking efforts of course will continue,
>> but everything except regressions in the current and the previous
>> mainline cycle might not see much attention from my side. This
>> refocusing also means that I won't work much on resolving some
>> ambiguities around "how regressions are supposed to be handled" which
>> lead to tension quite a few times. But all that should be for the best
>> in the long term.
> 
> While you might be "too close" to the details to feel like this past
> year was not good with regards to "performance", I'd like to counter
> that and say I have been immensely happy with the work you did last
> year.  The tracking and pushing on people to get regressions addressed
> and merged is thankless (as you well know), but vital to our project in
> order to keep our users happy.
> 
> So don't beat yourself up at all, you're doing a great job.

I was planning on sending a similar reply. But Greg has said
it so well that all I can say is that I fully agree with what
Greg wrote.

Thorsten thank you for all your efforts over the last year.

Regards,

Hans