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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux@leemhuis.info, kvalo@kernel.org,
	benjamin.poirier@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v3] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:37:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230720143746.1adb159a@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230720-proxy-smile-f1b882906ded@spud>

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:15:26 +0100 Conor Dooley wrote:
> ..I noticed that none of these sections address actually testing the
> code they're responsible for on a (semi-)regular basis. Sure, that comes
> as part of reviewing the patches for their code, but changes to other
> subsystems that a driver/feature maintainer probably would not have been
> CCed on may cause problems for the code they maintain.
> If we are adding a doc about best-practice for maintainers, I think we
> should be encouraging people to test regularly.

I think our testing story is too shaky to make that a requirement.
Differently put - I was never able to get good upstream testing running
when I worked for a vendor myself so I wouldn't know how to draw 
the lines.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19 18:32 [PATCH docs v3] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-20 15:15 ` Conor Dooley
2023-07-20 21:37   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-07-20 22:23     ` Conor Dooley
2023-07-20 18:23 ` Edward Cree
2023-07-20 18:26   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-20 18:31   ` Mark Brown
2023-07-20 21:42   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-21  7:46 ` Martin Habets
2023-07-21  8:38 ` Simon Horman
2023-07-21 19:53 ` Jonathan Corbet

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