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

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 02:06:46PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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.

Thank you for the response and the information!

But why won't this same issues apply just as forcefully to a new
linus-next tree?

Full disclosure:  Testing and tracking down bugs in -next can be a bit of
a hassle, to be sure, but I expect to continue to do so.  For one thing,
dealing with -next is way easier than testing patches on the various
mailing lists.

							Thanx, Paul