On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:02:51PM -0800, Brad Roberts wrote: > Would any of you be interested in helping out (read that as "doing") a > research / data mining project for us? I'd love to take all of the > regressions this year (or for the last year, or whatever period of > time can be reasonably accomplished) and track them back to which > commit introduced each of them (already done for some of them). From > there, I'd like to see what sort of correlations can be found. Is > there a particular area of code that's responsible for them. Is there > a particular feature (spread across a lot of files, maybe) that's > responsible. Etc. > > Maybe it's all over the map. Maybe it will highlight one or a few > areas to take a harder look at. > > Anyone interested? [...]
I'm surprised nobody offered to help, seeing as there are many complaints about DMD bugs. Well, I'd love to help, but I can't promise I'll have the time to do a lot. But I'm reasonably comfortable with running git bisect to isolate the offending commits; so if you'll send me a list of issues, I could try to work through it at whatever pace I can manage and send you the results. I hope it won't be just me, though, 'cos I probably won't have the time to do a lot, but if there's a team of people working on it, I'll love to chip in. Don't know how much help I'll be in the correlation part, though. But I suppose that will have to come from comparing offending commits to look for patterns. T -- "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)" -- Larry Wall
