Am 29.09.21 um 19:11 schrieb Steve French:
> gitnub is fine for many things, and we can automated "kernel
> development process"
> things presumably with github easier than alternatives:
> - running "scripts/checkpatch"
> - make with C=1 and "_CHECK_ENDIAN" support turned on
> - kick off smbtorture tests (as Namjae already does in his branches in github)

you can also add "doing review". :)

As for running tests: I want that as well! :) How can I get that? Maybe 
other want to run CI on their patches too before posting them.

> BUT ... we have to ensure a couple things.
> - we don't annoy Linus (and linux-next and stable maintainers) by doing things
> like web merges in github (he complained about the meaningless/distracting
> github web ui empty merge messages)

as said before: just don't do the merge there, just the review. That's 
the way Samba has been doing it for years. Are you actually aware of the 
current Samba workflow?

-slow

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