Media committers model postponed to 6.14 - Was: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Document the new media-committer's model

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, 3 Dec 2024 14:07:12 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> escreveu:

> 
> The idea is to gradually open media-committers to more people, as each
> phase succeeds, addressing infra, procedures, etc.
> 
> My rough idea is to do:
> 
> - Phase 0.99: beta testers;
> - Phase 1 is to invite people that regularly submit PRs;
> - Phase 2 is to invite other active maintainers;
> - Phase 3 (or 2?, TBD) to open for non-maintainers.
> 
> We shouldn't rush it, as there are a lot to be done before opening it
> broadly. So, I would say that:
> - phase 0.99 would start in -rc2 (if things go well during this week); 
> - phase 1 may still happen on this merge window, but as there will be
>   only a few weeks between -rc2 and -rc6, and people usually get
>   holidays in Dec/Jan, it is more likely that it will start for
>   6.14-rc1, again if we didn't notice big issues on phase 0.99.
> 
>   We should wait at least for a couple of releases on phase 1,
>   again to cleanup process and fine-tune infra. If things go well, 
>   we can move to phase 2.

After some discussions with Hans, we decided to postpone the
beta testers phase to the next kernel cycle. There are a couple of
reasons for that:

- This should give us more time to come up with a final version of 
  the media-committers documentation and agreement;

- This would also work better with regards to end of year's vacations,
  as they'll be affecting at least 2/3 -rc versions. Plus, we all have
  things to finish before such vacations. So, better to start fresh next
  year;

- Media CI still had issues with a patch series I submitted, as it picked
  the wrong baseline, causing CI to not test two patches that were
  applied on the top of media-committers/next branch. This was fixed
  by Ricardo, but it means that we may still need to polish CI before
  granting more people righs there.

With that, if we want to start the media committers for 6.14, we should
aim to close review this document by -rc6, or, at most, -rc7, getting 
the patches merged during the next merge window.

Regard

Thanks,
Mauro