Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Nominating Fengguang Wu - 0-day

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hello,

On Tuesday 26 Jul 2016 08:40:07 Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:23:43PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 25/07/2016 at 21:01:25 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote :
> >> It surprises Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> hasn't been nominated
> >> yet, so I'd like to nominate him. The mechanical process should
> >> probably include in the future a scrape for top Reported-by
> >> contributors.
> > 
> > That's a good point.
> > 
> >> Fengguang's 0-day infrastructure is invaluable to day to day kernel
> >> development, having him present would be great for any questions that
> >> may come up. Getting a statistical overview / update of impact / any
> >> major architectural changes of the 0-day infrastructure would also be
> >> very useful. If maintainers are not yet using 0-day it would be great
> >> to hear why. If your contributors are not using 0-day (I know some of
> >> you exist) I'd like to know why you don't use it, I often run into
> >> issues on linux-next which at times I have to fix, if 0-day would have
> >> been used a folowup fix would not have been needed.
> 
> I am using it a lot :)
> 
> > Well, I think it would also help to know how the patch/git tree
> > selection is done. Lately, I've been receiving less reports from 0-day
> > and some issues were found by Arnd's autobuilders after hitting
> > linux-next. I used to get report of compilation breakage 10-15 minutes
> > after the patch submission.

I second that. 0-day is an amazing tool, but relying on it requires developers 
to trust that the tool will perform its job as expected. A proper 
understanding of the logic behind patch/git tree selection would be very 
valuable, as well as how the build bot handles its 500+ kernel configurations.

Even though 0-day is an external tool, maybe it deserves an entry in 
Documentation/ ? A public web page hosting the list of all git registered git 
trees could be useful too.

> Pls check if the mailing list is still subscribed. I had the same issue
> and found that his ID was kicked off from the list, which is quite
> typical w/ Intel accounts & vger.
> 
> Since work is done by scripts, people may not have noticed.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart