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