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

["Levin, Alexander" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 09:55:18AM -0400, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Levin, Alexander wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 08:11:19AM -0400, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 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!
> >
> > I'd be happy to do this as well.
> >
> > Per Greg's advice, I'm reviewing distro kernels for upstream commits that
> > they carry which should have been in our LTS trees, those commits usually
> > aren't tagged in any way and can be a good set of commits for training or
> > validation.
> >
> > I do think that we should be using the algorithm to produce a list of authors
> > and maintainers who don't provide proper tags when they should and have a
> > discussion with them about why that doesn't happen and how we can help them
> > to get it "right" (vs just using the algorithm to apply patches).
> 
> Thanks for volunteering and for the suggestions.  I will get back to you
> about this shortly.

I think it's also a great opportunity to discuss the differences between the
commits Greg marked for stable and the ones I did. As with everything else we
see things differently so it'll be useful to learn more about why each of us
picked (or didn't pick) a given commit.

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Thanks,
Sasha