Re: a dedicated list for build error reports?

Dan Carpenter
2012-10-22T06:52:45Z

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:07:55PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:01:46 +0800
>
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:45:22PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:10:42AM +0200, Luis G.F wrote:
> >> > unsubscribe kernel-janitors
> >>
> >> Uh. Obviously this isn't the right way to unsubscribe. You have to
> >> send the email to majordomo@vger.kernel.org and not to the list.
> >>
> >> But I do think we should maybe find another list for Fengguang's
> >> emails? It's sort of a lot higher traffic than before and sort of a
> >> different flavour.
> >
> > Agreed.. I'm afraid that my report titles are much more messy than
> > the normal emails and there could be a dozen of such reports per day.
> >
> > It may be more clean to send the build error/warning reports to a
> > standalone list.
> >
> >> I still will want to subscribe to the emails, but it would be better
> >> to use a different list. Apparently Dave Miller didn't like the
> >> idea of creating a special list for it because he didn't like the
> >> emails in the first place. But now I think everyone likes them a
> >> lot. It might be worth asking again.
> >
> > CC Dave Miller for possible new inputs.
>
> I find them super annoying, and these reports are extremely sub-optimal
> as is.
>
> The amount of time spent composing these reports could equally be spent
> condensing the error down to a small, self contained, set of text
> explaining the exact build failure and an initial root-cause estimate.
> And sending it to the correct maintainer's list.
>
> Heck, in the same amount of time, you could even implement the damn
> fix!

My understanding is the emails are composed automatically and take
zero time. If the error message has a very low false positive rate,
then the email is sent without any human interaction at all.

regards,
dan carpenter