Re: [Bug 10864] [regression][bisected] ~90,000 wakeups as of 2.6.26-rc3

Ingo Molnar
2008-06-15T07:50:37Z

* Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I already mentioned at the bug report that 2.6.26-rc6 this is fixed.
>
> Maybe tell your robot to first check the latest activities in the bug
> report since the last -rc release. What I want also to tell your robot
> that it should mention what actions should be taken in case the bug
> should be still listed or when the bug can be closed.

i think the current regression tracking methods that Rafael uses work
very well and i'd like to thank Rafael for those efforts - to me as a
subsystem maintainer it is a _very_ useful thing.

In this case there was no real harm from the "this bug is already fixed"
condition - just an extra email. Real harm would only come from missed
regressions or from incorrectly closed regressions - but those are not
happening.

note that there is no "robot" involved in changing the state of bugs -
the real important work here is done by Rafael and checking whether a
bug is still relevant is an inevitably manual work. The mails and
reports are auto-generated but crawling discussions and determining the
status of a regression is very hard to automate.

Ingo