Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination - Sasha Levin

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 01:55:27PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Not sure if I was clear about what I was asking you to agree to :)
> 
> Basically, we can take the patches sent to stable and the patches not sent
> to stable as a training set, but then the machine learning comes up with
> some algorithm that produces some results.  An expert is needed to evaluate
> the results.  Ie for a thousand (number chosen at random) patches, if the
> algorithm says it is a bug fixing patch, is it or isn't it, and vice versa.
> Of course, we could also evaluate on patches that previously have and have
> not been sent too stable, but there is a problem there, because our goal is
> to have more patches sent to stable than are already being sent there, so we
> need to show that the algorithm can capture what humans are missing.

I think that is very interesting research and I would be glad to help
out with it how ever I can, as the result might be very useful for us.

So sign me up!

thanks,

greg k-h