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

Jiri Kosina
2024-10-22T12:06:49Z

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.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs