On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Milosz Wasilewski wrote:
On 27 June 2017 at 13:21, Greg KH gregkh@google.com wrote:
linux-next? Wait, why do we care about that tree here at the moment? We have _so_ many other things to worry about first, right?
It was cheap to add and it produces new build every day. This way it's easier to sort out the problems with infrastructure we currently have. Stable branches don't change that frequently.
There's also demand from other teams within Linaro that are engaged with upstream for results from mainline trees, this will both help mainline Linux development, start feeding the pipline to future stable releases and expand the pool of people providing feedback on the tooling.
One of the things we're going to be working on here is trying to make noise about the fact that we're running tests and care about the results. The aim with doing that is partly to try to keep things more stable in the same way that the existing focus on build and boot testing does and also to say to people who might work on testing that there's interest, hopefully helping more people do as the graphics and v4l people are currently doing and work on the testsuite development side. These are all long games.