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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:48:26 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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Subject: Re: automated warning notifications
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On 06/15/2012 01:54 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:

> 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


and you will let us know when it has been created??

Although I had just as soon use an existing list, like
kernel-janitors or kernel-testers.

thanks,
-- 
~Randy
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