On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 04:53:05PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 09:33:11AM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > > > Maybe this is something Syzbot could implement? > > > > Wouldn't it be better to have it in 'git bisect'? > > "Git bisect" is the wrong layer of abstraction. It doesn't know > anything about (a) how build the software package (which might not be > the kernel, remember), nor how to run a test, nor how to tell whether > a test run was successful or a failure. Eh? It has a mode for automatic bisections, you just give it a test that runs pass/fail. This works with my ktest, which runs tests in a VM and in non interactive gives you that pass/fail in the exit code - I've used it that way before. > > If only we had interns and grad students for this sort of thing :) > > The lightweight test manager (ltm) for gce-xfstests was implemented by > an intern. And the kernel compilation service (kcs), git branch > watcher, and git bisection engine for gce-xfstests was done by a group > of undergraduates at a unversity in Boston as part of a software > engineering class project. > > Mentoring interns and undergraduates was incredibly fulfilling, and I > very much enjoyed the experience. I'd like to think I helped them to > become better software engineers. However, mentoring students takes a > significant amount of time, and on net, it's not clear it was a win > from a personal time ROI perspective. > > We did manage to recruit the intern to become a SWE at Google after he > graduated, so that was definitely considered a win from my company's > perspective. :-) Cool :)
