From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis•org>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel•com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels•com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel•com>,
"ksummit-2012-discuss@lists•linux-foundation.org"
<ksummit-2012-discuss@lists•linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
"linux-next@vger•kernel.org" <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] stable kernel stuff and grumpy maintainers [bisection/rebase/-next]
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:51:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340293901.27036.182.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120621152649.GA15549@localhost>
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 23:26 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:04:26AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 21:38 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> >
> > > This is the 0-day kernel testing backend I recently started can help.
> > >
> > > It runs kernel build/boot tests on each developer's tree and tries to
> > > find and report possible defects within 24 hours. The timely report
> > > can effectively constraint the scope of impact to the related people,
> > > rather than hurting the larger crowd of people in the integration tree.
> >
> > Perhaps you would be the perfect candidate to house a linux-devel.git
> > repo. Have it set up like so:
>
> Actually Stephen jumps to my mind at the very start. He has all the
> experiences, tools and infrastructure to maintain such a tree.
I didn't want to burden him more ;-)
>
> The most important problem may be, how many developers we can attract
> to send pull requests to linux-devel. It would be a good quiz in the KS :-)
Agreed. Of course this is the chicken/egg problem. How do you know how
many developers that it would attract without first doing it.
So far I know of 1 (me ;-) And I think even GregKH said he liked the
idea.
>
> FYI, I've added about 170 git trees as my test targets, which contain
> about 550 active branches. I enjoy a lot looking at the freshly cooked
> commits being compiled and ran to the degree to keep the servers busy
> all day :-)
What about trees like my own, where 'master' is very stale, and all the
goodies happen in the other branches. And last I looked, in my public
repo, I have 124 branches!
>
> > If you do not have the time to set up such a repo, I'm willing to do it.
> > I just do not have the hardware to do the testing that should be done,
> > but as it would be public, others could test it, and report back to me.
>
> Yeah either way is possible and I can sure carry out tests on it. But
> IMHO Stephen could be the perfect candidate to maintain the tree :)
If he wants to then sure. Otherwise it may become my hobby :-)
-- Steve
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2012-06-21 15:26 ` [Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] stable kernel stuff and grumpy maintainers [bisection/rebase/-next] Fengguang Wu
2012-06-21 15:51 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2012-06-21 23:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-21 23:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-22 0:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-06-22 0:29 ` Steven Rostedt
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