Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

Adrian Bunk
2007-06-17T18:24:52Z

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:26:55PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>> And we should be aware that reverting is only a workaround for the real
> >>> problem which lies in our bug handling.
> >> ...
> >
> > And this is something I want to emphasize again.
> >
> > How can we make any progress with the real problem and not only the
> > symptoms?
> ...
>
> Perhaps make lists of
>
> - bug reports which never lead to any debug activity
> (no responsible person/team was found, or a seemingly person/team
> did not start to debug the report)
>
> - known regressions on release,
>
> - regressions that became known after release,
>
> - subsystems with notable backlogs of old bugs,
>
> - other categories?
>
> Select typical cases from each categories, analyze what went wrong in
> these cases, and try to identify practicable countermeasures.

No maintainer or no maintainer who is debugging bug reports is the
major problem in all parts of your list.

> Another approach: Figure out areas where quality is exemplary and try
> to draw conclusions for areas where quality is lacking.

ieee1394 has a maintainer who is looking after all bug reports he gets.

Conclusion: We need such maintainers for all parts of the kernel.

> Stefan Richter

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Adrian

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