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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 11:21:55AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Add the newly created regression mailing list finally created after it
> already had been agreed on during the maintainers summit 2017 (see
> https://lwn.net/Articles/738216/ ). The topic was recently discussed
> again, where an idea to create a broader list for all issues was
> discussed, but Linus preferred a more targeted list:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgiYqqLzsb9-UpfH+=ktk7ra-2fOsdc_ZJ7WF47wS73CA@mail.gmail.com/
>
> Hence, the creation for that list was asked for and granted:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212557
>
> In the end it became regressions@lists.linux.dev instead of
> linux-regressions@lists.linux.dev as 'Linux' is redundant in the latter
> case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
> ---
> I was a bit unsure how to add that list to MAINTAINERS. I considered
> adding a 'M:' with my name and email address there as well, but getting
> CCed on a lot of regression reports might be a bit much. I also left a
> 'S: supported' out, as that doesn't make much sense in this case afaics;
> and I checked, there are other entries that don't have those two (but
> it's rare).

Put your name there, you are the "maintainer of regressions!" :)

Seriously, it's good to do that, maintainers entries that just have no
one "responsible" always seem to end up being a black hole.

>
> Ciao, Thorsten
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 03b2096a5f8f..dd5743d1f743 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15212,6 +15212,10 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/
> F: drivers/base/regmap/
> F: include/linux/regmap.h
>
> +REGRESSIONS
> +L: regressions@lists.linux.dev
> +K: regression

A bit more information here perhaps? This will not really help anyone
out to know what to do.

thanks,

greg k-h

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