On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 09:30:33AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > I think the bulk of user issues are going to be regressions. Although > > you may be in a better position to know for sure, but at least for > > me, wearing my "user" hat, the thing that gets me the most is > > upgrading to a new kernel and suddenly something that use to work no > > longer does. And that is the definition of a regression. My test > > boxes still run old distros (one is running fedora 13). These are the > > boxes that catch the most issues, and if they do, they are pretty > > much guaranteed to be a regression. > > > > I like the "linux-regressions" mailing list idea. > > Can't we use the fancy features of public inbox to get the best of both > worlds? Have the bug list (or even a collection of lists) but make the > linux-regressions one a virtual list keying off an imap flag which a > group of people control. That way anything that is flagged as a > regression appears in that public inbox. I assume the search can be > quite wide so we could flag a regression on any list indexed by lore? There's a number of ways we can accomplish this, sure. However, this functionality is not in production yet, and I'm not sure which upcoming public-inbox features we'll be implementing as a public lore.kernel.org service, which ones we'll only offer to kernel.org account holders, and which ones should really be running locally by developers themselves. So, I don't want to say either yes or no to this one for the fear of over-promising. I guess this is why I'm not in sales. :) -K
