[Posted the text on the regressions list as well: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7613e402-894a-4d38-8cef-7263630c1c57@leemhuis.info/; if you want to comment on it, please reply there.] The long story short I'm not really happy with my performance wrt to my regression tracking efforts during the last year. To counter that, …

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[last updated: 2024-01-06] Prevalent reasons why Linux developers do not fix reported issues or ignore bug reports completely These are the most frequent reasons why Linux kernel developers ignore bug reports or only react scantly to them: Your kernel was apparently built by a Linux distributor or hardware vendor. Your …

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Just to increase visibility: I've rewritten the 'about' page, which now contains much more details about these efforts -- especially for anyone that is new to them. Enjoy! Thorsten

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The long story short Linus recently mentioned regzbot positively again regression tracking once again helped to get a last-minute fix into 5.17 that otherwise would have missed it regzbot now understands a command to put some slow-moving entries on "back burner" to get them out of the spotlight my texts on …

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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 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 useful, …

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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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