Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-17T15:19:59Z

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:36:31 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > In so far as making it possible to get b) to help, my current excitement
> > > surrounds around what Song Liu mentioned to me at LSFMM and then
> > > quickly demonstrated that the eBPF folks are doing with patchwork.
> > > Get the patches to be tested automatically, and *immediately*
> > > patch reviewers and maintainers can get feedback if something is not even
> > > worth reviewing.
> >
> > This is interesting, do you have any link to share to related resources
> > ?
>
> I'm guessing, but i think that is referring to the "Checks" section in
> a patchworks status page. Picking a couple of patches at random:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230816210049.54733-9-saeed@kernel.org/
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230816210049.54733-2-saeed@kernel.org/
>
> Jakub can tell you more.

FWIW BPF runs more stuff, they spin up VMs and run the actual selftests,
so looking at a BPF patch will be more informative:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230816045959.358059-3-houtao@huaweicloud.com/

Exact details are to my knowledge in flux, the system is constantly
being improved.