Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757483AbXIRMXs (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:23:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755933AbXIRMXk (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:23:40 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:32289 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755973AbXIRMXj (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:23:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Sk+6txck40Pw4//Lvzo8PNz/lL/a7Xq47Mr6LkRKrYYsKgobGO7RMgYBEzlVzqdR+jHwYFty4dzN77XXG91Lcim6lS1EG8pQfrkL9qUi/NcUuTaq005PqNBQMRYxNaAJINZvyr8TBpuwI2WXEsc+/a2tb6wH6/uEpkMKcnlg88Y= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:23:38 -0400 From: "Miles Lane" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: What can be done to reduce the huge number of build fixes required to release an MM tree? Cc: LKML MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1202 Lines: 30 Hello Andrew and all, What can be done to reduce the huge number of build fixes required to release an MM tree? Perhaps it would be helpful if you identified specific individuals who send you patches that break the build. If necessary, we could keep a running total. The main thought is that maybe we need to identify who regularly sends troublesome patches. There are three metrics that might be good to know: 1) Who sends patches that are regularly broken, but sends patches rarely? 2) Who sends patches all the time, and once in while causes trouble? And 3) Who is causing the most cumulative trouble? Is there any possibility that we ought to refuse patches from people who break the build too often? Another area that might be helpful might be how the patches break things. Are there major groupings of errors that developers could be educated about? I am sorry you are having to work so hard to do your job, Andrew. Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/