Re: Wiki for automatic reports / fixes

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Luis R. Rodriguez writes ("Wiki for automatic reports / fixes"):
>> [...]
>>>  While discussing expectations and information about
>>> reports over these with Valentin it occurred to me information about
>>> all these may be scattered separately and some developers may be
>>> surprised when they first get reports / fixes from these sorts of
>>> testing systems and that perhaps it may be useful if we had a single
>>> wiki entry point where we could refer folks to the different ongoing
>>> testing infrastructures out there working upstream.
>>>
>>> If we could piggy back off of an already existing wiki then great, but
>>> if not I was thinking something off of wiki.kernel.org might be good.
>>> How about tests.wiki.kernel.org ? If such projects don't have a wiki
>>> they could perhaps use pages off of tests.wiki.kernel.org to elaborate
>>> and set expectations straight. Thoughts?
>>
>> To clarify what I think you are suggesting, is to create a new wiki or
>> wiki page which gives information about automatic tests that are
>> performed on upstream (or going-upstream) Linux branches ?
>
> That's right, as it stands we have a slew of folks doing a series of
> battery of tests on either linux-next or other branches, and
> developers / maintainers get e-mails about this. Typically one becomes
> aware of these tests through experience and in dealing with reports
> but other times one may not even be aware of ongoing effort on this
> front, such was the case of Valentin's dead code analysis with
> undertaker. Knowing what existing work is being done can and could be
> used can also save people from re-inventing the wheel, but also and
> most importantly collaborate.
>
>> I think this is a good idea.  I'm not sure how much information we
>> need for each tester, but a page for each would be about right.
>
> Sure, I figure if each tester framework has its own dedicated page we
> can at least refer to it, but a basic page which describes general
> coverage / mailing lists / contact info / and what to expect might be
> useful. As it stands most of this is just tribal knowledge.

OK I'll poke and see if we can get this created.

 Luis
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