Re: automated warning notifications

Fengguang Wu
2012-06-15T08:54:14Z

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

Thanks,
Fengguang