Thorsten Leemhuis

Regzbot code published and running now to see how it works

Aug 30, 2021 · 2 min read · regzbot · regression · Linux · kernel ·

Tick tick, is this thing still on? Sorry for being quiet many weeks, I was busy writing regzbot, the "Linux kernel regression tracking bot". And you know how it is: after "ohh, this is going quicker than expected" this thing called reality catches up. Yeah, that things that presents lots of …

regzbot: 'the design' aka 'how is this thing supposed to work'

Apr 19, 2021 · 9 min read · regzbot · regression · Linux · kernel ·

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The bot this project will build got a name: "regzbot". That makes it a good time to explain how it will look like and how it's supposed to establish proper regression tracking in the Linux kernel development process. So here is a simple example that is more concrete than the vague introduction post. Below …

First steps: Linux now has a mailing list for regression reports

Apr 8, 2021 · 1 min read · regression · Linux · kernel · mailinglist ·

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I finally started to work on this process a few days ago. There is one highlight I can show to the world already: I requested the creation of a mailing list for regression reports and it was granted, so now regressions@lists.linux.dev exists. I also submitted a patchset to get it mentioned in the documentation and the …

Hello world from the project to properly establish regression tracking in the Linux kernel development process

Nov 4, 2020 · 5 min read · regression · Linux · kernel · regzbot ·

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Welcome to the website about a project that wants to properly establish regression tracking in the Linux kernel development process. It's a project by Thorsten Leemhuis, who will start to work on it in April 2021. This site is mainly a placeholder until then, but for the impatient, here are a few glimpses of what this …