From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:48:26 +0000 Subject: Re: automated warning notifications Message-Id: <4FDB675A.7040808@xenotime.net> List-Id: References: <20120614172523.GB4400@mwanda> <20120615014835.GA5695@localhost> <20120615071222.GZ13539@mwanda> <20120615075810.GA13206@localhost> <20120615083100.GA29692@leaf> <20120615085405.GB13933@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20120615085405.GB13933@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Fengguang Wu Cc: Josh Triplett , Dan Carpenter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , Al Viro , Christopher Li , Linus Torvalds On 06/15/2012 01:54 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:31:00AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:58:10PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:12:22AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:48:35AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: >>>>> In an average working day, 1-2 build errors will be caught and email >>>>> notified. I guess there will be more sparse warnings if it's turned >>>>> on. >>>>> >>>>> Perhaps the sparse warnings can be enabled, but only sent to the patch >>>>> author. If you and anyone else are interested, they could be sent to >>>>> some mailing list, too. One thing I'm sure is, we probably never want >>>>> to disturb the busy maintainers with these warnings. >>>> >>>> Eventually I think we will want to set up a mailing list for this or >>>> we will start sending duplicate messages. >>> >>> Fair enough. How can we setup the mailing list? Once the list up, it >>> would be trivial for me to send sparse warnings out there. >> >> Rather than a mailing list, how about something like test.kernel.org for >> sparse warnings? > > It's much more trivial to send new build/sparse errors/warnings to a > list than to setup a website :-) As the errors come and go every day, > and they are mostly unstructured, it seems the mailing list would be a > more natural fit. People can search for known errors there and/or CC > fixes there. > > Anyway, we just sent an request for creating > > automated-warnings@vger.kernel.org and you will let us know when it has been created?? Although I had just as soon use an existing list, like kernel-janitors or kernel-testers. thanks, -- ~Randy