From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F3FC4332F for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230124AbiJBS4Q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2022 14:56:16 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39850 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230042AbiJBS4P (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2022 14:56:15 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 8619 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Sun, 02 Oct 2022 11:56:14 PDT Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0017.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.17]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D269D357FD; Sun, 2 Oct 2022 11:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omf06.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B67A04D5; Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B1A862000F; Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:55:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1bc2b9ad8c04de55053a020481b66c2229fa720b.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues" From: Joe Perches To: Geert Uytterhoeven , "Artem S. Tashkinov" Cc: Theodore Ts'o , Thorsten Leemhuis , Greg KH , Konstantin Ryabitsev , workflows@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Linus Torvalds , "regressions@lists.linux.dev" , ksummit@lists.linux.dev, Mario Limonciello Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 11:56:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3381c74ad6862224e4511d7edf6f9681c678338b.camel@perches.com> References: <05d149a0-e3de-8b09-ecc0-3ea73e080be3@leemhuis.info> <9a2fdff8-d0d3-ebba-d344-3c1016237fe5@gmx.com> <83f6dd2b-784a-e6d3-ebaf-6ad9cfe4eefe@gmx.com> <79bb605a-dab8-972d-aa4a-a5e5ee49387c@gmx.com> <3381c74ad6862224e4511d7edf6f9681c678338b.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Evolution 3.44.4 (3.44.4-2.fc36) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Stat-Signature: tp6ctf7by1iiiu31zs6czza9q9y3n58e X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout06 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: B1A862000F X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX18bTZhhwKWfzeqBcpQrtYfQknRXtK1hSzc= X-HE-Tag: 1664736951-789270 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 09:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 18:08 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 2:49 PM Artem S. Tashkinov wrote: > > > The current ill-maintained semi-functional bugzilla has proven to be a > > > ton more useful than random mailing lists no sane person can keep track > > > of. Bug "reports", i.e. random emails are neglected and forgotten. LKML > > > is the worst of them probably. > > > > Such a statement really needs to be backed by numbers... > > > > > Let's operate with some examples: > > > > > > Bugzilla gets around two dozen bug reports weekly which encompass at > > > most thirty emails, which equals to four emails daily on average. > > > > This immediately debunks your statement above. > > true. > > > $ git log v5.19..linus/master | grep Fixes: | wc -l > > 2928 > > > > So that's 46 bugs fixed per _day_. > > But not really. Many, perhaps even most, of these "Fixes:" are for code > introduced in -rc releases and so are a typical part of a development > cycle and are not for fixes in nominally released/final versions. Unless I stuffed something up, it looks like only about 2% of these "Fixes: " commits were for existing defects in earlier non-rc releases. $ git log --grep="^Fixes:" --no-merges --pretty=oneline v5.18..v5.19 | wc -l 2531 $ git log --grep="^Fixes:" --no-merges --pretty=oneline v5.18..v5.19 | \ cut -f1 -d" " | \ while read line ; do \ echo -n "---> $line" ; \ echo ":$(git rev-list --max-count=2 v5.18..$line | wc -l)" ; \ done | \ grep ":1" | wc -l 54