Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:15:33 +0200,
Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:44:23AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >> It would be awesome to have a "bisect@home" type of thing with a
> >> similar
> >>idea like seti@home and folding@home. Have a central queue where
> >>developers can submit upstream commits and testcases, and a swarm of
> >>volunteer drones would grab and bisect-build them until the
> >>bug-introducing commit is identified and reported back.
> >>
> >>I'll totally host the hell out of this.
> >>
> >Developers usually have no problem building and bisecting kernels,
> >it's non-kernel developers who often struggle with bisection.
> >One idea that I haven't followed up on was to extend the existing
> >targets for building distro packages to just build the source
> >side of things and then take advantage of existing environments
> >(e.g. COPR) to build the package binaries. I'd love a web interface
> >that would handle some of this automatically but, again, lack of
> >resources and knowledge of web frameworks.
> 
> I'm excited that kernelci.org is coming on board as a full-fledged
> Linux Foundation project, since I'm hoping that their charter would
> include funding this kind of development. [1] I was already chatting
> with Kevin about some of the cool things we could do to make various
> CI/fuzzing/bug-reporting tools more streamlined, so I'll add
> "bisecting as a service" to my list of suggestions for the glorious
> kernel CI tool of the future. :)

That sounds promising, thanks!


Takashi