Hi, Am Dienstag, den 19.05.2009, 22:05 -0400 schrieb Devin Heitmueller: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Steven, > > > > Your concerns about testing make sense, but this were already tried in the > > past, when Uri started sending their patches at the ML. So, instead of > > repeating the same novel, let's merge the patches at the development tree and > > ask people to test. > > > > Yet, I'm keeping the Siano patches at the 'pending' -git tree, where I hold > > very experimental work. I intend to hold it there until we have more tests and > > have all the pending patches merged. > > > > About creating an -hg tree for Siano (and for other developers), I had to nack > > it in the past, since the LinuxTV server were overloaded. Now that the machine > > got replaced, I think we may actually create a tree for them. > > > > Uri, please discuss about this in priv with me, in order to exchange the needed > > information for the login account. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Mauro > > Mauro, > > If I recall, a ton of patches were sent to the mailing list, but there > was never a test tree on linuxtv.org. Were you expecting interested > parties to hand-apply all those patches? > > It's not clear to me why you are putting this code that is untested by > the community into the v4l-dvb tree. In all other cases where linuxtv > developers want to submit large sets of changes, you expect them to > create a private tree so testers can be solicited *before* it goes > into v4l-dvb. Why would this case be any different? > > You have no personal knowledge as to whether the code actually works, > and there are parties who have expressed a very clear concern about > some of the patches causing regressions in existing hardware. Doesn't > the safer approach seem to be to setup a ~mchehab/siano-patches tree > so that people can do some testing, and *then* merge to the mainline? > If everything works, then great - it's one command to merge the fold > the tree back into the mainline... > > Devin > unfortunately, IIRC, Linus said once testing is for idiots or something like that only. He can say that :) But here the rule is, to allow him further to say so, you are not allowed to send in even a oneliner only without compile and functional test :) As Mauro explained, Uri will likely very soon have his public test repo. Cheers, Hermann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
