[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] linux-next and process

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Tue Jun 19 02:35:29 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 07:14:09PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:31:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:17:52 -0400 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > Then when Linus merges it all,
> >> > we see a ton of new bugs appear that neither of us hit before.
> >> > I've observed this for the last 2-3 releases, but it's probably been happening
> >> > for longer.  This isn't driver specific either, it's core code that everyone runs.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Oh my, I didn't know that.  So we have regressions going into mainline
> >> which would have been detected beforehand, only they're not, because
> >> code isn't getting a trial run in -next?  If so, that is a massive fail.
> >>
> >> It would be interesting to bisect some of these regressions, then do a
> >> bit of investigation into how the offending patches managed to get into
> >> mainline.  Perhaps a pattern will emerge...
> >
> > Someone published statistics a couple of months ago - I think it was for 3.2 or
> > 3.3. My memory may be wrong, but at as far as I recall the percentage of commits
> > in the commit window which did not go through -next was quite high, something
> > in the range of 20 or even 30%.
> 
> How does something qualify as "in -next"? Residing for a certain time
> period, with the same commit ID? If so, then some stats might be
> misleading, as I know a submaintainer whose tree is in -next but is
> constantly rebased and tweaked as development progresses and bugs are
> fixed. Eventually, these commits make it into mainline, but their
> commit ID may or may not have been present in -next simply because of
> rebasing.
> 
Ok, I looked it up:
	http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-next/msg18455.html

It wasn't as bad as I remember; "only" 13% of commits into 3.3-rc1 did not show
up in -next.

You'll have to ask Stephen how he calculated the numbers.

Guenter


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