On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 23:26 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:04:26AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 21:38 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > > > This is the 0-day kernel testing backend I recently started can help. > > > > > > It runs kernel build/boot tests on each developer's tree and tries to > > > find and report possible defects within 24 hours. The timely report > > > can effectively constraint the scope of impact to the related people, > > > rather than hurting the larger crowd of people in the integration tree. > > > > Perhaps you would be the perfect candidate to house a linux-devel.git > > repo. Have it set up like so: > > Actually Stephen jumps to my mind at the very start. He has all the > experiences, tools and infrastructure to maintain such a tree. I didn't want to burden him more ;-) > > The most important problem may be, how many developers we can attract > to send pull requests to linux-devel. It would be a good quiz in the KS :-) Agreed. Of course this is the chicken/egg problem. How do you know how many developers that it would attract without first doing it. So far I know of 1 (me ;-) And I think even GregKH said he liked the idea. > > FYI, I've added about 170 git trees as my test targets, which contain > about 550 active branches. I enjoy a lot looking at the freshly cooked > commits being compiled and ran to the degree to keep the servers busy > all day :-) What about trees like my own, where 'master' is very stale, and all the goodies happen in the other branches. And last I looked, in my public repo, I have 124 branches! > > > If you do not have the time to set up such a repo, I'm willing to do it. > > I just do not have the hardware to do the testing that should be done, > > but as it would be public, others could test it, and report back to me. > > Yeah either way is possible and I can sure carry out tests on it. But > IMHO Stephen could be the perfect candidate to maintain the tree :) If he wants to then sure. Otherwise it may become my hobby :-) -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
