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

Paul E. McKenney
2024-10-22T14:22:13Z

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 02:06:46PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > I have to ask...
> >
> > Wouldn't more people testing -next result in more pressure to fix
> > linux-next problems quickly?
>
> I believe I brought up pretty much exactly this at this year's maintainer
> summit.
>
> >From the discussion it turned out the many people believe that this
> investing into this is probably not worth it, as it will require much more
> continous, never-ending effort (for which there are probably not enough
> resources) than just dealing with the fallout once during the -rc1+ phase.

Thank you for the response and the information!

But why won't this same issues apply just as forcefully to a new
linus-next tree?

Full disclosure: Testing and tracking down bugs in -next can be a bit of
a hassle, to be sure, but I expect to continue to do so. For one thing,
dealing with -next is way easier than testing patches on the various
mailing lists.

Thanx, Paul