LOR status page?
Jon Noack
noackjr at alumni.rice.edu
Sat Mar 27 02:26:24 PST 2004
On 3/24/2004 7:15 PM, Don Bowman wrote:
> From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih at rpi.edu]
>> At 3:46 PM -0800 3/24/04, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:03:28PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
>>>> Would it be helpful to put up a web page with all known lock
>>>> order reversal false positives (or better yet all known lock
>>>> order reversals with a status indication)? This would allow
>>>> people to check there before reporting, saving everyone time.
>>>
>>> Clearly we need to do something to stop people reporting the same
>>> non-bugs every day, the problem is that it needs to be somewhere
>>> people are likely to check. Maybe a pointer to your proposed
>>> webpage in UPDATING will help.
>>
>> Could we do something so we don't PRINT the false-positives? If
>> we're about to turn 5.x-current into 5.x-stable, then it is not
>> good to tell users "Here are a bunch of error messages that you
>> should just ignore". At least in my experience, what happens is
>> that users are much more likely to ignore *all* error messages.
>>
>> I have no idea what would need to be done, of course. I'm just
>> uneasy at telling users to ignore scary-looking error messages.
>>
>> I do agree that a web page saying exactly which ones to ignore
>> would be better than expecting end-users to figure that out by
>> scanning the mailing lists...
>
> How about make the first line of the error message be: "This
> technique sometimes produces false positives... See http://.../ for
> more details"
I like this idea. Anyone willing to commit such a change? If so, I'll
get going on the web page and let you know when it's ready. Without
such a blatant pointer I don't think the page would be useful enough to
warrant creating it.
Jon
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