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Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!! |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:38:00 +0200 |
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On 03/13/2012 04:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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.
Seems to me it's better to review before testing, no?
>
>> 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.
I'm not arguing either for or against that, just trying to make the
commit process more efficient.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Andreas Färber, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Avi Kivity, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Eric Blake, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Stefan Weil, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Avi Kivity, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!,
Avi Kivity <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Blue Swirl, 2012/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Blue Swirl, 2012/03/14
Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/13