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

Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-10-23T18:50:22Z

Hi Linus,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 8:10 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 11:05, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > And that is a good day. Sometimes dozens of builds and hundreds
> > of boot tests fail. Analyzing those failures would be a full-time job.
> > Who do you expect would or should do that ?
>
> Yeah, this is the problem. I think it's only useful if some automation
> (not humans! That would make people burn out immediately) can actually
> pinpoint the trees that introduced the failures.
>
> And I think that would be absolutely lovely. But I suspect the testing
> requirements then have latencies long enough that getting to that
> point might not be entirely realistic.

At least for the build failures, zero day does a good job, and does
inform the author and appropriate maintainer.
Unfortunately maintainers can still ignore any reported issues...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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