Re: syzbot reporting less duplicates

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!
On Wed 2021-02-03 19:22:34, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 6:39 PM bobwxc <bobwxc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 05:05:43PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Mon 2021-02-01 11:52:12, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > > Could we please get common prefix (like syzbot: KASAN:....) so that
> > > the bulk of emails is easier to remove?
> > There are several bots testing on the kernel, maybe we should give a prefix
> > format for all bot.
> > Also we can use mail-address to fliter email, but it's still a little
> > inconvenient.
> 
> Hi Pavel, bobwxc,
> 
> Yes, I was wondering if syzbot in From/To/CC can be used for
> filtering? I assume email clients that can filter based on subject can
> also filter based on From/To/CC.
> Does anybody filter syzbot emails? Maybe you can share what works
> best?

From does not really work. So... syzbot reports for subsystems I don't
maintain are uninteresting, and so is the resulting discussion.

While filtering on "From:" is easy for initial report, it does not
make it easy to remove follow up discussion.n 

> I am not sure a common prefix for all bots is useful because it
> supports only all or nothing. There are also some bots that
> maintainers use now that seem to be fundamental to the process, if one
> is ignoring them, then they are effectively ignoring what the
> maintainer is saying.

I'm pretty sure common prefix for all bots is useful.

Best regards,
							Pavel
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