From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8FFC432C1 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1C521D6C for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:20:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1569280801; bh=TYN86YGqXrsNBL03jzhfsZPF5Z0IhGEVZrOQsXcIRxE=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=YF9maevzvvWwah7GTSXDyor/w/r4dMAyBESjWYz/kCzD+Ep+z8Buwk1JKTJ8lj+fL uIBTe7hgr9AuSwkGSgth7mQxPNVmDdRW7f/yfYSdyz9wbZSVurO347YI2G1VR+SAs9 mcrwzg3Xh7QfzojhpvQhQWZbf/4vnRx66TCnwUyE= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2404961AbfIWXUB (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:20:01 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55920 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2404574AbfIWXUB (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:20:01 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.112] (c-24-9-64-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net [24.9.64.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 87DC2207FD; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:19:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1569280800; bh=TYN86YGqXrsNBL03jzhfsZPF5Z0IhGEVZrOQsXcIRxE=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=cJTZZ86R1cHXbjLg4vi8B0sHXXBy4k2H84qg0dtY3VbXbv2ywgMx52p+wy9o7WIhB jHVdvVYvxR4hDlHDqkiChGdbeIli92UKMjw4l7Ed+g5UkNy8OB94MhB9b8MY+xmxRq lMQepytSLlA15jkrhC6Ags0hjr5rAAvcyWKraxIY= Subject: Re: kunit: what do we do with the 'kunit/alpha/master' branch? To: David Gow Cc: Brendan Higgins , David Chiang , David Siebert , Kees Cook , Mike Salvatore , Pei Huang , Sagi Shahar , Sangsu Ha , kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" , shuah References: <2e2441c8-eba7-e5c5-ae18-8d9141c0de98@kernel.org> From: shuah Message-ID: <5785a414-b726-a2d6-b8a0-d5f4efaed22e@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:19:58 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kselftest-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org On 9/23/19 5:00 PM, David Gow wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 2:52 PM shuah wrote: >> >> My concern with this approach is either one could outdated. is there a >> reason continue in parallel mode. I would rathet see development happen >> upstream so we don't have lot of code to be upstreamed sitting in an >> experimental branch while upstream keeps moving. It is given that they >> will diverge. > > I definitely appreciate that, and the aim certainly is to have most > changes go straight upstream without passing through the > 'experimental' branch first. > > The real purpose of the 'experimental' branch is to have somewhere to > keep the mocking functionality before we're ready to upstream it. > Given that there are already people using the current version of the > mocking framework, we want to provide a smooth-ish path to upstream by > providing this branch which is at least closer to upstream than when > we are now (and that'll stay as close to upstream as possible through > regular rebasing, rather than staying 'stuck' on the older versions). > What I would like to see is a freeze on the experimental branch as soon as KUnit goes into mainline (which is really at the end of this week) Start draining the experimental branch with a goal to get all everything currently staged there mainlined. Please define clear sunset date for the experimental branch. Without that we are looking at a lot of pain in the future. thanks, -- Shuah