Re: Mainline in regression-fix mode after Thanksgiving

["Giovanni Bajo" <rasky@develer.com>]

Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> wrote:


> I'm set up to do regression hunts on a powerpc64-linux-gnu system and
> can keep it busy.  For regressions that can be tested with only cc1 or
> cc1plus a regression hunt can build and test cross compilers so it
> doesn't matter what the build/host system is.

Great!

> If there are regressions you'd like me to track down, assign the PRs to
> me temporarily and then I can assign them to the person who introduced
> or exposed the bug, or to someone else who can then decide what do with
> it next.

As I said in another mail in this thread, we do not have a policy so that we
can automatically assign regressions to the author of the patch which
caused/exposed them. (Re)Assigning a bug without permission is considered
unpolite by some people.

Note that I do not agree. If Mark Mitchell agrees, we can setup a policy to
do so. For many regressions present in Bugzilla, we already know which patch
caused it (thanks mainly to Volker and Andrew), so assigning them in
Bugzilla could be a good way to make this more visible. Right now, we
usually just CC: the person that caused the regression notifying him/her.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo