On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 18:56 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:22:10AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > Not to excuse rudeness, we always try to be polite on lists when
> > this happens, but -next builds on Australian time, so when we find
> > and fix an issue there can be up to 24h before it propagates.  In
> > that time, particularly if it's a stupid bug, it gets picked up and
> > flagged by a number of self contained 0day type projects and
> > possibly a couple of coccinelle type ones as well.  It does get a
> > bit repetitive for maintainers to receive and have to respond to 4
> > or 5 bug reports for something they just fixed ...
> 
> I'd have thought most maintainers would be pretty used to sending
> repetitive e-mail by now :)
> 
> > Perhaps the -next tracking projects could have some sort of co-
> > ordination list to prevent the five bug reports for the same issue
> > problem?
> 
> We're not *that* overburdened with people running testing, and
> especially not with people actively reporting the results, at the
> minute.

We are if a maintainer snapping at someone causes tests not to be run
or results not to be reported.

James