Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:44:20 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: Reducing the noise level of build error notifications to 0 |
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 10:50:31AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > [switch to LKML] > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:47:32PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:16:46AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I'm sorry if this pile of build errors disturbed you too much. If > > > the error notification is too permissive, I can limit it in two ways: > > > > > > 1) only notify build errors on the first kconfig. There may be a few > > > new error messages show up in the other kconfig builds, however > > > mostly are just irritating duplications. > > > > Duplicates should be suppressed, they are just annoying. > > OK! I'll suppress noises in four ways: > > rule 1: all newly shown-up error messages will be only notified for > the current commit and remembered to be "known bug" thereafter. > > rule 2: when one bad commit triggers build errors in multiple kconfigs, > only one of them will be CCed. The patch author will still get > full information in private emails. > > rule 3: when one bad commit triggers build errors in the _subsequent_ > innocent commits of the same branch, the emails will be sent > to myself for manual check first. This will inevitably lead to > more delays (esp. when I'm sleeping), however 2+ bad commits > should not happen frequently. > > rule 4: gcc/sparse warnings will never be CCed. Only private email > notifications will be sent to the author. > > The above rules should be able to reduce the noise level close to 0 > for maintainers and public mailing lists. > > The commit author may still see some noises, however the good thing > is, he should be able to tell signals from noises much easier than > the others.
How about also cc: not only the author where you mention it above, but everyone who signed-off on the patch? That would provide a bit of peer pressure to ensure that the problems get fixed.
Oh, and thanks for working on this, it's much appreciated.
greg k-h
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