Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:54:05 +0800
From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: automated warning notifications
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:31:00AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:58:10PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:12:22AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:48:35AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > > In an average working day, 1-2 build errors will be caught and email
> > > > notified. I guess there will be more sparse warnings if it's turned
> > > > on.
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps the sparse warnings can be enabled, but only sent to the patch
> > > > author. If you and anyone else are interested, they could be sent to
> > > > some mailing list, too. One thing I'm sure is, we probably never want
> > > > to disturb the busy maintainers with these warnings.
> > > 
> > > Eventually I think we will want to set up a mailing list for this or
> > > we will start sending duplicate messages.
> > 
> > Fair enough. How can we setup the mailing list? Once the list up, it
> > would be trivial for me to send sparse warnings out there.
> 
> Rather than a mailing list, how about something like test.kernel.org for
> sparse warnings?

It's much more trivial to send new build/sparse errors/warnings to a
list than to setup a website :-) As the errors come and go every day,
and they are mostly unstructured, it seems the mailing list would be a
more natural fit. People can search for known errors there and/or CC
fixes there.

Anyway, we just sent an request for creating

        automated-warnings@vger.kernel.org

Thanks,
Fengguang
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