[Ksummit-discuss] Nominating Fengguang Wu - 0-day

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Tue Jul 26 03:10:07 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:23:43PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 25/07/2016 at 21:01:25 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote :
> > 
> > It surprises Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu at intel.com> hasn't been nominated yet,
> > so I'd like to nominate him. The mechanical process should probably include in
> > the future a scrape for top Reported-by contributors.
> > 
> 
> That's a good point.
> 
> > Fengguang's 0-day infrastructure is invaluable to day to day kernel
> > development, having him present would be great for any questions that may come
> > up. Getting a statistical overview / update of impact / any major architectural
> > changes of the 0-day infrastructure would also be very useful. If maintainers
> > are not yet using 0-day it would be great to hear why. If your contributors are
> > not using 0-day (I know some of you exist) I'd like to know why you don't use it,
> > I often run into issues on linux-next which at times I have to fix, if 0-day
> > would have been used a folowup fix would not have been needed.

I am using it a lot :)

> Well, I think it would also help to know how the patch/git tree
> selection is done. Lately, I've been receiving less reports from 0-day
> and some issues were found by Arnd's autobuilders after hitting
> linux-next. I used to get report of compilation breakage 10-15 minutes
> after the patch submission.

Pls check if the mailing list is still subscribed. I had the same issue
and found that his ID was kicked off from the list, which is quite
typical w/ Intel accounts & vger.

Since work is done by scripts, people may not have noticed.

-- 
~Vinod


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