Re: CKI hackfest @Plumbers invite

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On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:54:12AM -0400, Veronika Kabatova wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as some of you have heard, CKI Project is planning hackfest CI meetings after
> Plumbers conference this year (Sept. 12-13). We would like to invite everyone
> who has interest in CI for kernel to come and join us.
> 
> The early agenda with summary is at the end of the email. If you think there's
> something important missing let us know! Also let us know in case you'd want to
> lead any of the sessions, we'd be happy to delegate out some work :)
> 
> 
> Please send us an email as soon as you decide to come and feel free to invite
> other people who should be present. We are not planning to cap the attendance
> right now but need to solve the logistics based on the interest. The event is
> free to attend, no additional registration except letting us know is needed.
> 
> Feel free to contact us if you have any questions,
> Veronika
> CKI Project
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Here is an early agenda we put together:
> - Introductions
> - Common place for upstream results, result publishing in general
>   - The discussion on the mailing list is going strong so we might be able to
>     substitute this session for a different one in case everything is solved by
>     September.
> - Test result interpretation and bug detection
>   - How to autodetect infrastructure failures, regressions/new bugs and test
>     bugs? How to handle continuous failures due to known bugs in both tests and
>     kernel? What's your solution? Can people always trust the results they
>     receive?
> - Getting results to developers/maintainers
>   - Aimed at kernel developers and maintainers, share your feedback and
>     expectations.
>   - How much data should be sent in the initial communication vs. a click away
>     in a dashboard? Do you want incremental emails with new results as they come
>     in?
>   - What about adding checks to tested patches in Patchwork when patch series
>     are being tested?
>   - Providing enough data/script to reproduce the failure. What if special HW
>     is needed?
> - Onboarding new kernel trees to test
>   - Aimed at kernel developers and maintainers.
>   - Which trees are most prone to bring in new problems? Which are the most
>     critical ones? Do you want them to be tested? Which tests do you feel are
>     most beneficial for specific trees or in general?
> - Security when testing untrusted patches
>   - How do we merge, compile, and test patches that have untrusted code in them
>     and have not yet been reviewed? How do we avoid abuse of systems,
>     information theft, or other damage?
>   - Check out the original patch that sparked the discussion at
>     https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/862123/
> - Avoiding effort duplication
>   - Food for thought by GregKH

So I guess I'm going to be there?

Ok, fair enough, I'll be present, looks good :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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