Re: Trying to work with the tests

[Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 2024/4/24 18:37, Ian Kent wrote:
> On 24/4/24 17:47, Ian Kent wrote:
>> On 23/4/24 18:34, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>> Hi Ian,
>>>
>>> On 2024/4/22 21:10, Ian Kent wrote:
>>>> On 22/4/24 17:12, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>>>
>>>>> (+Cc Jingbo here).
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2024/4/22 16:31, Ian Kent wrote:
>>>>>> I'm new to the list so Hi to all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm working with a heavily patched 5.14 kernel and I've gathered together patches to bring erofs
>>>>>>
>>>>>> up to 5.19 and I'm trying to run the erofs and fscache tests from a checkout of the 1.7.1 repo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (branch experimental-tests-fscache) and I have a couple of fails I can't quite work out so I'm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hoping for a little halp.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your interest and provide the detailed infos.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess a modified 5.14 kernel may be originated from RHEL 9?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that's right.
>>>>
>>>> I am working on improving erofs support in RHEL which of course goes via CentOS Stream 9.
>>>
>>> BTW, could you submit the current patches to CentOS stream 9 mainline?
>>> so I could review as well.
>>
>> CentOS Stream is meant to allow our development to be public so, yes, I would like to do that.
>>
>>
>> It will be interesting to see how it works, I'll have a look around the CentOS web site to see if I can work
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>> out how it looks to external people.
>>
>>
>> Timing is good too as I'm about to construct a merge request and our process requires that to be against
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>> the CentOS Stream repo.
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>>
>> That repository is located on GitLab ... so we'll need to work out how to go about that.
> 
> Looking at the CentOS web page at https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/quickstart/
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> you would need a GitLab account to take part in the merge request review process.

Yes, I have a gitlab account.

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> 
> If you wanted to take part in the case discussion as well you would need a Red Hat Issues
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> account (sign up https://issues.redhat.com/). This is only needed if you want to take part
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> in development/log bug reports, etc. since a Jira bug is required for each merge request.

I guess I don't need a Red Hat Issues account, since I could comment in the PR itself.

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> 
> As the Mandalorian would say, "this is the way".
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> 
> If you don't wish to do this then I can post elsewhere, perhaps a kernel.org repo. but it gets
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> a bit harder if we work outside of the development process.

Nope, gitlab repo is fine, and I already participated in CentOS
Stream 9 repo before.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

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> Ian
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