12:00:47 #startmeeting CIP IRC weekly meeting 12:00:47 Meeting started Thu Apr 23 12:00:47 2026 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is jki. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 12:00:47 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 12:00:47 The meeting name has been set to 'cip_irc_weekly_meeting' 12:00:58 #topic AI review 12:01:15 no Action Items (we will come to other AI later ;)) 12:01:27 5 12:01:29 4 12:01:31 3 12:01:33 2 12:01:35 1 12:01:39 #topic Kernel maintenance updates 12:01:52 i've been working on 4.4 12:01:54 This week reported 102 new CVEs and 132 updated CVEs. 12:02:06 I reviewed 6.12.80. 12:02:28 I am reviewing 6.12.82 and 83 12:03:35 anything to add? 12:03:49 5 12:03:52 4 12:03:54 3 12:03:56 2 12:03:58 1 12:04:01 #topic Kernel release status 12:04:20 4.4 is now quite late but almost done, right? 12:04:31 reviews are in, so i expect to be able to push it tomorrow 12:04:57 was there a particular reason for the delay? 12:05:19 more backports than expected. many things went into 4.19 cleanly but had to be backported for 4.4 12:05:31 usually that is not the case, or at least to a much lower extent 12:05:54 ok, please speak up early if it repeats 12:06:11 ok 12:06:23 if workload grows, we need to flag that 12:06:37 before being boiled alive ;) 12:06:57 it varies between releases, sometimes dramatically 12:07:00 can't really predict that 12:07:51 sure, but in that case one question would be if there is chance to scale out the work 12:07:56 have more hands when needed 12:08:28 not sure. for the last release, 4.4 was very little effort, iirc i released it on the same day as 4.19 or something like that 12:09:36 anyway, let's just monitor carefully 12:09:43 anything else? 12:10:26 5 12:10:27 4 12:10:29 3 12:10:30 2 12:10:32 1 12:10:34 #topic Kernel testing 12:11:02 Not much from me. 12:11:14 not much from me, applied kernel testing and dependability MC for LPC 2026 12:11:20 iwamatsu: your lab is currently offline, could you take a look when you get a chance? 12:11:47 patersonc: I will check after this meeting. 12:11:58 Thanks 12:12:50 just reminded Pasquale of the prague lab state... 12:13:17 Thanks 12:14:22 more testing topics? 12:14:58 5 12:15:00 4 12:15:02 3 12:15:04 2 12:15:06 1 12:15:09 #topic AOB 12:15:43 Glasswing topics from kernel and testing perspective - just a reminder for my email 12:16:05 if you have anything to discuss here already, go ahead 12:16:26 timeline is still unclear, though 12:16:55 Just be sure thete is human sending issues to us 12:17:09 so we can tell him to stop. 12:17:40 We already have source of low quality issues 12:17:43 might be me in the end - you may even shout then ;) 12:17:50 +1. i use llms extensively, but that's me controlling the ai. if somebody else sent me false positives, i'd become very annoyed very quickly. 12:18:02 - CVE. 12:18:19 Yeah, I seen you volunteering. 12:18:41 Just make sure there's human on 12:18:43 I would expect to 2-phase process: learn based on few examples what it can do, then scale up, or down 12:18:52 the other end, too. 12:19:44 Glasswing access is apparently always operated by one individual, human, per participating LF project 12:20:09 they told us this is by design, to have many projects benefiting, rather than few with more bandwidth 12:20:39 So no human oversight at the other end? 12:21:26 the humans in there are LF project representatives 12:22:01 the give prompts and (pre-)process the results, then decide what to do with them (simplified) 12:22:38 I haven't seen any written conditions yet, remains a bit speculation 12:23:25 I'd ask someone on AI side to do at least pre-processing. 12:24:11 that would be a massive manual effort; i'm sure they will leave that to us... 12:24:11 they (Anthropic) just to the operation and safety supervision here - again only my current understanding 12:24:21 yep 12:25:14 but it will remain fully up to us as project to which degree we make use of it, or can do that if we are limited in time/hands 12:26:02 so, representative depth first, then discuss if/how to go wide 12:26:46 if you have done past experiments with moderate success, those could be retried e.g. 12:27:16 if you have harder questions to ask that were not possible so far (or too expensive), let's try one of them 12:27:19 etc... 12:29:17 other topics for today? 12:30:06 5 12:30:08 4 12:30:10 3 12:30:12 2 12:30:14 1 12:30:16 #endmeeting