Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Measurement, was Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Linux Contribution Maturity Model and the wider community

[Finn Thain]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2023 at 11:46:18AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> > BTW. I assume that 'Fixes' tags are already being used to train AI 
> > models to locate bugs in existing code. If this could be used to 
> > evaluate new patches when posted, it might make the code review 
> > process more efficient.
> 
> That has been happening for many many years now with papers being 
> published about it and many conference presentations.  It shouldn't be a 
> secret it's been happening and directly helping with stable kernel 
> maintenance for a long time.
> 

Many years ago it struck me that the deficiencies of checkpatch.pl could 
be addressed with coccinelle but I still don't see this happening on the 
lists I read.

I see reviewers being spared from having to examine many flawed patches 
because the zero-day bot intercepted them and fed them to static 
analyzers. But I still don't see coccinelle being used to the same end 
i.e. to reduce the burden on reviewers and maintainers.

Has no-one tried it, or did it not work out?