Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

Sasha Levin
2024-10-29T15:07:48Z

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 01:46:23PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>Hmmm. After all those mails in this thread improving (and maybe even
>separating & somewhat automating[1]) pending-fixes to me still sounds
>like time better spend, as then more things could tested before they
>even read a PR; but yes, I understand, the timing/order of merges can
>mess things up, so testing on PR time has benefits, too.

Automating how? Having it be generated more often?

>Maybe I'm just biased, as I could need a better working pending-fixes
>for regression tracking[2], as that allows me to ensure regression fixes
>are on the right track (which usually is the current merge window and
>not the next).

I'd love to throw the linus-next away once I find it useless :)

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Thanks,
Sasha