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

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/07/2018, 13:00, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

    >>> On 24.07.18 at 13:48, <yuri.volchkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    > In my personal opinion, just sending CI email as "reply-all" is fine. I
    > do not mind having an extra email per patch in my mailbox.
    
    This is exactly what I'm afraid of - when you're Cc-ed on a lot of
    patches, you may then also get a lot of mails here. And no, other
    than suggested elsewhere, I'm never going to have a rule to push
    all mails matching certain criteria right into trash - there's always
    the risk of a false positive. It is imo _always_ the sending side
    which needs to judge who needs to be on the To/Cc lists of a mail,
    never the receiving side to "paper over" mistakes the sender has
    made.
    
I believe there is quite a bit of freedom on how we would implement this.

@Doug: please correct me if this is wrong.

For example: we could do something like the following
* Contributor sends series to xen-devel@ (or if necessary to some 
alias or a different new list)
* Patchbot to take mail off list and run the tests
* Patchbot to augment the original mail(s) with embedded 
test results and/or Tested-by: tags to and send it to xen-devel@
* Augmented mail to be sent to xen-devel@ as if it came from
sender - although this may cause problems with some mail
clients

Or we could push the burden onto the contributor, e.g.
* Contributor to send series to test service 
* Contributor will get results (including some URL pointing to results)
* If succeeded or there is another good reason to send the series: 
Contributor to send mail to xen-devel@ with a reference to the results 
in the patch

Lars
    
    
    

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