From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:56:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YG2BxMBLqEt4mkgS@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f959331ed0e1a8ed59be9771fcab64378bd6977d.1617786974.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 11:21:55AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Add the newly created regression mailing list finally created after it
> already had been agreed on during the maintainers summit 2017 (see
> https://lwn.net/Articles/738216/ ). The topic was recently discussed
> again, where an idea to create a broader list for all issues was
> discussed, but Linus preferred a more targeted list:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgiYqqLzsb9-UpfH+=ktk7ra-2fOsdc_ZJ7WF47wS73CA@mail.gmail.com/
>
> Hence, the creation for that list was asked for and granted:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212557
>
> In the end it became regressions@lists.linux.dev instead of
> linux-regressions@lists.linux.dev as 'Linux' is redundant in the latter
> case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
> ---
> I was a bit unsure how to add that list to MAINTAINERS. I considered
> adding a 'M:' with my name and email address there as well, but getting
> CCed on a lot of regression reports might be a bit much. I also left a
> 'S: supported' out, as that doesn't make much sense in this case afaics;
> and I checked, there are other entries that don't have those two (but
> it's rare).
Put your name there, you are the "maintainer of regressions!" :)
Seriously, it's good to do that, maintainers entries that just have no
one "responsible" always seem to end up being a black hole.
>
> Ciao, Thorsten
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 03b2096a5f8f..dd5743d1f743 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15212,6 +15212,10 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/
> F: drivers/base/regmap/
> F: include/linux/regmap.h
>
> +REGRESSIONS
> +L: regressions@lists.linux.dev
> +K: regression
A bit more information here perhaps? This will not really help anyone
out to know what to do.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 9:21 [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] Add regression mailing list with basics for tracking Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-04-07 9:21 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-04-07 9:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-04-07 10:51 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-04-07 14:56 ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 17:53 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-04-07 9:21 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] docs: reporting-issues: make everyone CC the regressions list Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-04-07 10:00 ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 11:21 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-04-07 14:58 ` Greg KH
2021-04-08 17:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-04-09 11:54 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
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