A (late) "Happy new year". Time for a status update, which is overdue anyway. The long story short regzbot in general is working as intended to and regularly sending weekly reports now the code got a lot of polishing, but more is needed (as always) four additional features would make regzbot a lot more …

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The long story short publishing the code and field-testing regzbot as expected found bugs and deficiencies that got fixed the webview was improved and is online now there is now a "getting started" document for users and Linux kernel developers the third iteration of a patch to improve something in the Linux …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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