Re: [Minios-devel] automation: Creating a patchwork instance to improve pre-commit build testing

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/24/2018 01:45 PM, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 
> 
> On 24/07/2018, 13:00, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     >>> On 24.07.18 at 13:48, <yuri.volchkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     > In my personal opinion, just sending CI email as "reply-all" is fine. I
>     > do not mind having an extra email per patch in my mailbox.
>     
>     This is exactly what I'm afraid of - when you're Cc-ed on a lot of
>     patches, you may then also get a lot of mails here. And no, other
>     than suggested elsewhere, I'm never going to have a rule to push
>     all mails matching certain criteria right into trash - there's always
>     the risk of a false positive. It is imo _always_ the sending side
>     which needs to judge who needs to be on the To/Cc lists of a mail,
>     never the receiving side to "paper over" mistakes the sender has
>     made.
>     
> I believe there is quite a bit of freedom on how we would implement this.
> 
> @Doug: please correct me if this is wrong.
> 
> For example: we could do something like the following
> * Contributor sends series to xen-devel@ (or if necessary to some 
> alias or a different new list)
> * Patchbot to take mail off list and run the tests
> * Patchbot to augment the original mail(s) with embedded 
> test results and/or Tested-by: tags to and send it to xen-devel@
> * Augmented mail to be sent to xen-devel@ as if it came from
> sender - although this may cause problems with some mail
> clients
> 
> Or we could push the burden onto the contributor, e.g.
> * Contributor to send series to test service 
> * Contributor will get results (including some URL pointing to results)
> * If succeeded or there is another good reason to send the series: 
> Contributor to send mail to xen-devel@ with a reference to the results 
> in the patch

I don't see what the problem is in having a single response to the
thread saying that the test was run, the result of the run, and a link
to a page about it.  It's certainly less mail than I get in the course
of a normal review cycle about patch series I'm not interested in.

I mean, suppose we just had a really enthusiastic contributor who made
it their personal goal to test and build every patch that was sent to
the list.  Would anyone really complain about a single extra mail per
series, when a typical series generates dozens of human-generated mails
anyway?

 -George

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