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

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 24.07.18 at 11:14, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 24/07/18 10:06, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 23.07.18 at 18:40, <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> # How does this impact me?
>>> The contribution workflow is *not* impacted by this change, but once up and 
>>> running the following will happen once you post a patch or patch series to 
>>> xen-devel:
>>> * Patchwork will take patch series from the mailing list and applies it
>>> * CI/DC testing is triggered
>>> * A test report will be sent as a mail to the patch or the series (aka the 
> 00 patch of the series)
>>>
>>> This does mean though that series which do not build or show other issues, 
>>> will likely not be reviewed until the tests pass. This would lessen the 
>>> burden on reviewers, as they will know whether the code submitted builds on 
> a 
>>> wide array of environments. 
>> So how are dependencies between series intended to be dealt with? It
>> is not uncommon for someone to say "applies only on top of xyz". The
>> implication of "will likely not be reviewed until the tests pass" seems
>> unsuitable to me in such a case.
> 
> 99% of submissions aren't "applies on top of xyz".
> 
> Alternative, how about we see about not blocking underlying patches for
> unreasonable periods of time?

Well, I'm all for it, but I don't expect us to get there any time soon.
Just take the recent example of my indirect call patching series
depending on another series that I had submitted over 4 months ago.
Along those lines, the oldest (non-RFC) series I have in my to-be-
reviewed folder is from November - what if the author submitted
anything depending on it?

Jan



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