Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/13/2012 08:40 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 10:27 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> I agree that more maintainers would be good, but we also need
>>> more people with commit rights.
>>
>> I disagree strongly.  Having multiple pushers makes things difficult
>> and encourages people to push without testing.  Part of what makes
>> pushing take longer than it should today is that my test cycle takes
>> at least 1-2 hours and it's not uncommon to have to go through 3-4
>> cycles of rebasing before being able to push.
>
> This really sucks.
>
> If testing was automated, we could have a staging branch where
> maintainers would push patches, they'd get tested automatically and then
> graduate to master.  The workflow would look something like
>
>    git fetch
>    git checkout staging
>    git rebase origin/staging
>    <apply patches, pull trees>
>    git push staging
>    <wait>
>    <staging gets merged into master autoamatically, or you get an email
> from the test system>

The problem for me with this is that I test before I do a thorough review.  I do 
a quick review, but not a line-by-line review.  So I don't necessarily want to 
queue for push.

> If testing cannot be automated, perhaps a lock around the tree would help.

I think merging qemu-test into make check would help a lot.  If all committers 
are running the same test suite before pushing, then this problem would become 
less common.  It's livable now because most committers commit infrequently.

But if we added more committers, it would become pretty problematic.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori