From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7C63EC1 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2018 20:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-f193.google.com (mail-io0-f193.google.com [209.85.223.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 536797FE for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2018 20:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io0-f193.google.com with SMTP id y12-v6so6999803ioj.13 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 16:15:33 -0400 From: Konstantin Ryabitsev To: Laura Abbott Message-ID: <20180905201533.GA6117@chatter> References: <1536142432.8121.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20180905133916.GA22160@puremoods> <25765076-0a55-babc-cd34-dc5b0971d293@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <25765076-0a55-babc-cd34-dc5b0971d293@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:44:23AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote: >>It would be awesome to have a "bisect@home" type of thing with a >>similar >>idea like seti@home and folding@home. Have a central queue where >>developers can submit upstream commits and testcases, and a swarm of >>volunteer drones would grab and bisect-build them until the >>bug-introducing commit is identified and reported back. >> >>I'll totally host the hell out of this. >> >Developers usually have no problem building and bisecting kernels, >it's non-kernel developers who often struggle with bisection. >One idea that I haven't followed up on was to extend the existing >targets for building distro packages to just build the source >side of things and then take advantage of existing environments >(e.g. COPR) to build the package binaries. I'd love a web interface >that would handle some of this automatically but, again, lack of >resources and knowledge of web frameworks. I'm excited that kernelci.org is coming on board as a full-fledged Linux Foundation project, since I'm hoping that their charter would include funding this kind of development. [1] I was already chatting with Kevin about some of the cool things we could do to make various CI/fuzzing/bug-reporting tools more streamlined, so I'll add "bisecting as a service" to my list of suggestions for the glorious kernel CI tool of the future. :) -K [1] I don't bring this up too often, but kernel.org's official organizational purpose is "to distribute the Linux kernel and other Open Source software to the public without charge" -- so drifting too far away from such activity could potentially jeopardize its legal standing as far as non-profit filing paperwork is concerned. This is why we can organize funding for things like public-inbox and lore.kernel.org, but not other things that wouldn't be overall related to "distributing the Linux kernel free of charge."