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I'd > > > rather have as a giant todo list (that maybe other people could help > > > with too) > > > > > > Often alot of tokens are spent to find these things, it feels wrong > > > that they are effectively lost in the endless stream of reviews.. > > I think this ends up being one of those things that easily frustrates > maintainers: low-grade constant noise from an AI that adds extra > overhead and another thing people feel they need to look at. To be clear, here I am thinking of things that are not low grade. Eg recently sashiko found a drive by in a review and then a few weeks later the same issue was sent as a security@ email. So in my mind this is more like syzkaller where it found something, it does need fixing. I don't want to drop everything and fix it now, I'm OK leaving it on the syzkaller dashboard for a month, while trying to get someone to donate fixing it. I don't want to block anyone, but I don't want to loose this valuable information. Since I want to at least try to delegate it is helpful to have a public dashboard instead of my own todo list. > (Or feel they really don't have time or interest to look at, and then > just the knowledge that there's that nagging thing that you don't > really care about adds stress and frustration). Right, I'd feel better if there was reliable tracking for these discoveries. I don't want to make the unlucky sumbitter do anything about them as a pre-condition to make progress on whatever they are doing, unless the series is making it worse or doubling down on wrongness. Jason