Re: RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

James Bottomley [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 13:16 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 04:18:14PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

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Note, there is a second reason why ksummit-discuss is CCed: another
reason why I want to create this new list is making it easier to
find and track regressions reported to our various mailing lists
(often without LKML in CC, as for some subsystems it's seems to be
custom to not CC it). 

FYI, there will soon be a unified "search all of lore.kernel.org
regardless of the list/feed source" capability that may make it
unnecessary to create a separate list for this purpose. There's
active ongoing work in the public-inbox project to provide parallel
ways to follow aggregate topics, including query-based subscriptions
(i.e. "put a thread into my inbox whenever someone mentions my
favourite file/function/device name"). This work is not complete yet,
but I have great hopes that it will become available in the next
little while.

Yes, making progress and learning new tricks to make the WWW UI faster :>

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Once we have this ability, we should be able to plug in multiple
sources beyond just mailing lists, including a feed of all
bugzilla.kernel.org changes. This should allow someone an easy way to
query specific bugs and may not require the creation of a separate
list.

I'm not opposed to the creation of a new list, of course -- just want
to make sure it's aligned with the improvements we are working to
make available.

I suspect the problem is that there's no known useful search string to
find a bug report even given a searchable set of lists, so the main
purpose of this list would be "if it's on here, it's a bug report" and
the triage team can cc additional lists as appropriate.  Then we simply
tell everyone to send kernel bugs to this list and ask maintainers to
cc it if a bug report shows up on their list?

It seems having "bug" or "regression" in the subject could be sufficient?

"s:Regression" or "s:Bug" can be used to query messages reasonably
quickly:

https://80x24.org/lore/all/?q=s:Bug || https://yhbt.net/lore/all/?q=s:Bug
http://rskvuqcfnfizkjg6h5jvovwb3wkikzcwskf54lfpymus6mxrzw67b5ad.onion/all/?q=s:Bug