On 09/12/2024 09:15, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Tue, 3 Dec 2024 14:07:12 +0100 > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > >> >> The idea is to gradually open media-committers to more people, as each >> phase succeeds, addressing infra, procedures, etc. >> >> My rough idea is to do: >> >> - Phase 0.99: beta testers; >> - Phase 1 is to invite people that regularly submit PRs; >> - Phase 2 is to invite other active maintainers; >> - Phase 3 (or 2?, TBD) to open for non-maintainers. >> >> We shouldn't rush it, as there are a lot to be done before opening it >> broadly. So, I would say that: >> - phase 0.99 would start in -rc2 (if things go well during this week); >> - phase 1 may still happen on this merge window, but as there will be >> only a few weeks between -rc2 and -rc6, and people usually get >> holidays in Dec/Jan, it is more likely that it will start for >> 6.14-rc1, again if we didn't notice big issues on phase 0.99. >> >> We should wait at least for a couple of releases on phase 1, >> again to cleanup process and fine-tune infra. If things go well, >> we can move to phase 2. > > After some discussions with Hans, we decided to postpone the > beta testers phase to the next kernel cycle. There are a couple of > reasons for that: > > - This should give us more time to come up with a final version of > the media-committers documentation and agreement; Where are we with this? I haven't seen any updates since this post. Personally, I think the CI is ready for more committers, so it would be nice if we can get some experience with that. Regards, Hans > > - This would also work better with regards to end of year's vacations, > as they'll be affecting at least 2/3 -rc versions. Plus, we all have > things to finish before such vacations. So, better to start fresh next > year; > > - Media CI still had issues with a patch series I submitted, as it picked > the wrong baseline, causing CI to not test two patches that were > applied on the top of media-committers/next branch. This was fixed > by Ricardo, but it means that we may still need to polish CI before > granting more people righs there. > > With that, if we want to start the media committers for 6.14, we should > aim to close review this document by -rc6, or, at most, -rc7, getting > the patches merged during the next merge window. > > Regard > > Thanks, > Mauro >
