From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de [80.237.130.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F004970; Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:34:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip4d14bd53.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.20.189.83] helo=[192.168.66.200]); authenticated by wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) id 1lZpOY-0005Wh-NT; Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:34:30 +0200 To: Mark Brown Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , regressions@lists.linux.dev, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Konstantin Ryabitsev , Pablo Neira Ayuso , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, workflows@vger.kernel.org References: <268a3049-7c0b-8a33-1ff6-5a2d35fcba16@leemhuis.info> <20210422145107.GH4572@sirena.org.uk> From: Thorsten Leemhuis Subject: Re: RFC: building a regression tracking bot for Linux kernel development Message-ID: <1390e998-4847-eebf-1d7b-e9cb6625cff7@leemhuis.info> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:34:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210422145107.GH4572@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-BS Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;linux@leemhuis.info;1619159673;8d252f6c; X-HE-SMSGID: 1lZpOY-0005Wh-NT On 22.04.21 16:51, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:16:40AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> That's it already. The regression was tracked with: > >> * minimal overhead for the reporter >> * no additional overhead for the developers – only something they ought >> to do already became more important > > For things that are caught by the various automated systems the > deduplication might get annoying - even for the systems with a human in > the loop it's very common for things that the automated systems pick up > to end up getting reported several times over due to things like race > conditions in the reporting process. We'll have to see how that goes, > it might be possible to automate some of it. Yeah, good point, thx for pointing it out, will keep an eye on this aspect to make sure it doesn't become a big problem. Ciao, Thorsten