From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261438AbVGVXLc (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:11:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262216AbVGVXLc (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:11:32 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:18955 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261438AbVGVXLb (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:11:31 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:11:26 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Martin MOKREJ Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version Message-ID: <20050722231126.GB3160@stusta.de> References: <42E04D11.20005@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E04D11.20005@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:34:09AM +0200, Martin MOKREJ? wrote: > Hi, Hi Martin, > I think the discussion going on here in another thread about lack > of positive information on how many testers successfully tested certain > kernel version can be easily solved with real solution. > > How about opening separate "project" in bugzilla.kernel.org named > kernel-testers or whatever, where whenever cvs/svn/bk gatekeepers > would release some kernel patch, would open an empty "bugreport" > for that version, say for 2.6.13-rc3-git4. > > Anybody willing to join the crew who cared to download the patch > and tested the kernel would post just a single comment/follow-up > to _that_ "bugreport" with either "positive" rating or URL > of his own bugreport with some new bug. When the bug get's closed > it would be immediately obvious in the 2.6.13-rc3-git4 bug ticket > as that bug will be striked-through as closed. > > Then, we could easily just browse through and see that 2.6.13-rc2 > was tested by 33 fellows while 3 of them found a problem and 2 such > problems were closed since then. >... most likely, only a small minory of the people downloading a patch would register at such a "project". The important part of the work, the bug reports, can already today go to lnux-kernel and/or the Bugzilla. You'd spend efforts for such a "project" that would only produce some numbers of questionable value. > Martin cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed