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

From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Fri Apr 23 2021 - 02:34:47 EST


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