Re: Sashiko review email for

[David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 20 May 2026 14:34:11 +0000
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:

> +KVM and LKML (to capture as many of these discussions possible)
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2026, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 12:18:17AM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:  
> > > Hello people with a MAINTAINERS entry that uses kvm@vger.kernel.org as a mailing list!
> > > 
> > > How would y'all feel about enabling Sashiko[*] emails for kvm@vger.kernel.org?  For
> > > a variety of reasons, Sashiko currently only logs its reviews to https://sashiko.dev
> > > by default.  If subsystems want to receive on-list mails, they need to opt-in.
> > > 
> > > I really, really want to enable email reviews for KVM x86, as Sashiko has found
> > > an almost embarassing number of bugs that (a) would have been painful to debug
> > > had they escaped review and (b) I'm not convinced would have been found by
> > > traditional review.  And for me at least the signal:noise ratio is more than good
> > > enough.  There are still hallucinations and false positives from time to time,
> > > but the good outweighs the bad by quite a bit, it's cathartic to flame AI when
> > > it's wrong, and worst case scenario I can simply ignore Sashiko.
> > > 
> > > But, currently Sashiko is only capable of making decisions based on mailing list,
> > > i.e. as things stand, _all_ of kvm@ needs to opt-in.  Before I badger Roman to
> > > add bespoke logic to Sashiko's email flow, e.g. to special case KVM x86 in some
> > > way, I want to see if there's a general consensus in favor (or against) enabling
> > > review emails.  
> > 
> > I vote for enabling it, it has proven helpful at multiple places. I
> > would wanna ratelimit the # emails it may send in case of a malfunction
> > though.  
> 
> Ya, there's definitely an implied "we'll turn it back off if there are major
> problems".  But I don't see any reason to treat Sashiko any differently than
> other automated systems in this regard; when bots have been too noisy in the
> past, we've complained, and the bot/system was "fixed".
> 

Given the number of emails to lkml a few more won't hurt :-)
But perhaps they should come from "Sashiko (AI bot)" to remind everyone on
every email.

-- David