On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:37 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:20:00AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > I never saw an email from you or Greg saying, the branch "stable-xxx" is > > in review. Please run your tests. > > That is what my "Subject: [PATCH 4.9 000/137] 4.9.156-stable review" > type emails are supposed to kick off. They are sent both to the stable > mailing list and lkml. > > This message already starts the testing systems going for a number of > different groups out there, do you want to be added to the cc: list so > you get them directly? > No thanks, I'll fix my email filters ;-) I think the main difference between these review announcements and true CI is what kind of guaranty you get for a release candidate from NOT getting a test failure response, which is one of the main reasons that where holding back xfs stable fixes for so long. Best effort testing in timely manner is good, but a good way to improve confidence in stable kernel releases is a publicly available list of tests that the release went through. Do you have any such list of tests that you *know* are being run, that you (or Sasha) run yourself or that you actively wait on an ACK from a group before a release? Thanks, Amir.
