Re: regression tracking

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Oct 27 2011 - 16:33:28 EST


On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, Maciej Rutecki wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Åroda, 26 paÅdziernika 2011 o 19:23:11 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > The regression tracking that you folks used to do before the demise of
> > bugzilla.kernel.org was incredibly valuable.
> >
> > I'm very concerned about the fact that we don't have a systematic way
> > to do this any more. Some things do get reported on LKML, of course,
> > but without the legwork you guys did, I'm afraid we're just dropping
> > things on the floor because there's no summary of what the issues are,
> > how many people are seeing them, who's responsible, etc.
> >
> > Consider this as (1) kudos for performing an essential community
> > service, and (2) a plea for the resurrection or replacement of
> > bugzilla.kernel.org or some other mechanism for reviving regression
> > tracking.
>
> Because bugzilla is still down, I yesterday started send regressions (found in
> LKML) report directly to Rafael, to create summary report (etc.) of them.
> Until bugzilla comes back, we plan to collect regression in this way, but any
> proposal for a better solution is welcome.

Seconded.

Especially if there's a password-protected Wiki service somewhere that we
could use to store data temporarily until the BZ is back, it would be much
appreciated.

Thanks,
Rafael
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