Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Maintainer burnout

Jani Nikula
2023-08-17T12:01:07Z

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> 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.

I'm all for automated testing and CI, and all i915 patches get tested
before merging. But requiring everything to pass before a human so much
as looks at it can be incredibly demotivating for contributors. For
example, if they polish the contribution, and take all corner cases into
consideration to pass the tests... and then get told their design is all
wrong and needs to be redone from scratch. It's a balance.

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center