Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> I have to ask...
> 
> Wouldn't more people testing -next result in more pressure to fix
> linux-next problems quickly?

I believe I brought up pretty much exactly this at this year's maintainer 
summit.

>From the discussion it turned out the many people believe that this 
investing into this is probably not worth it, as it will require much more 
continous, never-ending effort (for which there are probably not enough 
resources) than just dealing with the fallout once during the -rc1+ phase.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs