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

Kees Cook
2024-10-22T19:33:04Z

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 04:12:43AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:48:34 -0700
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > > How about this, instead: no one sends -rc1 PRs to Linus that didn't go
> > > through -next. Just have a bot that replies to all PRs with a health
> > > check, and Linus can pull it if he thinks it looks good.
> >
> > Not just -rc1, otherwise agreed.
>
> You mean have everything go into linux-next before going to Linus after -rc1?

It seems like the most useful signal would be for the initial PR for the
merge window. After that it becomes a lot of fixes that didn't get tons
of soak time in -next, etc.

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Kees Cook