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 4ED9EB43 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 21:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AE545D3 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 21:15:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 23:15:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Sasha Levin In-Reply-To: <20190603211004.GU12898@sasha-vm> Message-ID: References: <0bc02b84-4d9a-59a7-e6c6-a3b602adca73@linuxfoundation.org> <1018c8ba-61a0-c024-cd98-3b82ebd710ec@redhat.com> <20190602180913.GR12898@sasha-vm> <667d4900-0a9a-d6f8-7012-3c15c2df7da8@linuxfoundation.org> <20190603180953.GA17954@chatter.i7.local> <20190603211004.GU12898@sasha-vm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: ksummit Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Squashing bugs! List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Sasha Levin wrote: > > Apparently syzbot doesn't do well on the (a) side though. Honestly, > > any system that just keeps things open for 300+ days has something > > wrong with it. At some point it needs to be automatically either > > closed, or re-notified. The "just keep it around" is simply not an > > option. > > My understanding is that syzbot closes a bug once the bot sees an > annotated commit indicating that it fixes a certain bug. These > annotations get lost/forgotten/etc so bugs remain open even after they > were fixed. A lot of such bugs get fixed (directly or totally indirectly) without authors of the fixes being even remotely aware of the syzbot report. So being able to perform "ok, this is not an issue any more for whatever reason, I am closing myself as RESOLVED" operation would be really nice to have feature, which I think is currently missing. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs