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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues"
 focussed on issues/bugs and regressions
From:   James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
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On Tue, 2021-03-23 at 12:20 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:25:15 +0100
> Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> wrote:
> 
> > I agree to the last point and yeah, maybe regressions are the more
> > important problem we should work on – at least from the perspective
> > of kernel development.  But from the users perspective (and
> > reporting-issues.rst is written for that perspective) it feel a bit
> > unsatisfying to not have a solution to query for existing report,
> > regressions or not. Hmmmm...
> 
> 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?

James