Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch checking bot

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:08:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 October 2014 11:25, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > At KVM Forum 2014 we discussed a patch checking bot that automates patch
> > format checking and smoke testing:
> >
> > 1. Did the patch submitter include Signed-off-by?
> > 2. Does checkpatch.pl pass?
> > 3. Does the patch apply to qemu.git/master?
> > 4. Does each patch compile?
> > 5. Does the series pass make check and qemu-iotests?
> >
> > Here are some thoughts on the patch checker:
> >
> > If a patch series passes successfully, no email is sent.  If a patch
> > series fails, an email with the errors is sent as a reply to the patch
> > series email thread.  The patch submitter can then respond in case there
> > are false positive (e.g. from checkpatch.pl) - the bot doesn't care
> > about replies but it tells the human reviewers and maintainers what the
> > patch submitter intends to do.
> 
> Probably also worth having a feature where the cover
> letter or patch can have a "patchchecker: no" line in
> it to tell the bot to ignore something, so people can
> avoid it sending lots of mail for patch series they
> know don't apply to mainline (eg ones which depend on
> a previous series).

The bot would send 1 email reply with a report of all errors.  That
doesn't seem too noisy.

That said, a header line to ignore the series is easy to implement so we
might as well.

Stefan

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