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    SubjectRe: Reducing the noise level of build error notifications to 0
    Hi Greg,

    On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 08:44:20PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 10:50:31AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
    > > [switch to LKML]
    > >
    > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:47:32PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:16:46AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
    > > > > Hi list,
    > > > >
    > > > > I'm sorry if this pile of build errors disturbed you too much. If
    > > > > the error notification is too permissive, I can limit it in two ways:
    > > > >
    > > > > 1) only notify build errors on the first kconfig. There may be a few
    > > > > new error messages show up in the other kconfig builds, however
    > > > > mostly are just irritating duplications.
    > > >
    > > > Duplicates should be suppressed, they are just annoying.
    > >
    > > OK! I'll suppress noises in four ways:
    > >
    > > rule 1: all newly shown-up error messages will be only notified for
    > > the current commit and remembered to be "known bug" thereafter.
    > >
    > > rule 2: when one bad commit triggers build errors in multiple kconfigs,
    > > only one of them will be CCed. The patch author will still get
    > > full information in private emails.
    > >
    > > rule 3: when one bad commit triggers build errors in the _subsequent_
    > > innocent commits of the same branch, the emails will be sent
    > > to myself for manual check first. This will inevitably lead to
    > > more delays (esp. when I'm sleeping), however 2+ bad commits
    > > should not happen frequently.
    > >
    > > rule 4: gcc/sparse warnings will never be CCed. Only private email
    > > notifications will be sent to the author.
    > >
    > > The above rules should be able to reduce the noise level close to 0
    > > for maintainers and public mailing lists.
    > >
    > > The commit author may still see some noises, however the good thing
    > > is, he should be able to tell signals from noises much easier than
    > > the others.
    >
    > How about also cc: not only the author where you mention it above, but
    > everyone who signed-off on the patch? That would provide a bit of peer
    > pressure to ensure that the problems get fixed.

    That's (interesting and) good point. If me understand you right:

    - TO: author, CC: Signed-off-by, CC: (sub-)subsystem mailing list
    for build errors

    - TO: author, CC: Signed-off-by (but sure, remove the top level busy maintainers)
    for gcc warnings

    - TO: author
    for sparse warnings (however I'm still too afraid to enable sparse checks)

    > Oh, and thanks for working on this, it's much appreciated.

    Thank you :)

    Regards,
    Fengguang


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