Re: [Minios-devel] automation: Creating a patchwork instance to improve pre-commit build testing

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:38:24AM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 24 Jul 2018, at 10:24, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 03:06:08AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>> On 23.07.18 at 18:40, <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> # How does this impact me?
> >>> The contribution workflow is *not* impacted by this change, but once up 
> >>> and 
> >>> running the following will happen once you post a patch or patch series 
> >>> to 
> >>> xen-devel:
> >>> * Patchwork will take patch series from the mailing list and applies it
> >>> * CI/DC testing is triggered
> >>> * A test report will be sent as a mail to the patch or the series (aka 
> >>> the 00 patch of the series)
> >>> 
> >>> This does mean though that series which do not build or show other 
> >>> issues, 
> >>> will likely not be reviewed until the tests pass. This would lessen the 
> >>> burden on reviewers, as they will know whether the code submitted builds 
> >>> on a 
> >>> wide array of environments. 
> >> 
> >> So how are dependencies between series intended to be dealt with? It
> >> is not uncommon for someone to say "applies only on top of xyz". The
> >> implication of "will likely not be reviewed until the tests pass" seems
> >> unsuitable to me in such a case.
> >> 
> > 
> > We have been asking everyone to rebase to staging before posting a new
> > version for a long time.  It is natural for the bot to assume that
> > everything should apply on top of staging. That would provide most value
> > to the community.
> > 
> > For special cases like you just mention, we should aim to provide
> > mechanisms to manually appoint a branch to be tested.
> 
> Wei, Doug: I have another question, which is mainly for my own understanding. 
> 
> Right now we allow posting of patches to Linux, Qemu, xen.git,
> OSSTEST, ... to xen-devel. The planned CI infrastructure only applies
> to xen.git. Have you thought about how to handle such cases? 

No. I haven't.  We may be able to use some heuristics here.

Wei.

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