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[83.57.170.138]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c24sm3323425wrb.11.2020.07.23.03.26.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: please try to avoid sending pullreqs late on release-candidate day To: Markus Armbruster , =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= References: <20200722093621.GA4838@linux.fritz.box> <87r1t3u4me.fsf@linaro.org> <87o8o6pwwm.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= Autocrypt: addr=philmd@redhat.com; keydata= mQINBDXML8YBEADXCtUkDBKQvNsQA7sDpw6YLE/1tKHwm24A1au9Hfy/OFmkpzo+MD+dYc+7 bvnqWAeGweq2SDq8zbzFZ1gJBd6+e5v1a/UrTxvwBk51yEkadrpRbi+r2bDpTJwXc/uEtYAB GvsTZMtiQVA4kRID1KCdgLa3zztPLCj5H1VZhqZsiGvXa/nMIlhvacRXdbgllPPJ72cLUkXf z1Zu4AkEKpccZaJspmLWGSzGu6UTZ7UfVeR2Hcc2KI9oZB1qthmZ1+PZyGZ/Dy+z+zklC0xl XIpQPmnfy9+/1hj1LzJ+pe3HzEodtlVA+rdttSvA6nmHKIt8Ul6b/h1DFTmUT1lN1WbAGxmg CH1O26cz5nTrzdjoqC/b8PpZiT0kO5MKKgiu5S4PRIxW2+RA4H9nq7nztNZ1Y39bDpzwE5Sp bDHzd5owmLxMLZAINtCtQuRbSOcMjZlg4zohA9TQP9krGIk+qTR+H4CV22sWldSkVtsoTaA2 qNeSJhfHQY0TyQvFbqRsSNIe2gTDzzEQ8itsmdHHE/yzhcCVvlUzXhAT6pIN0OT+cdsTTfif MIcDboys92auTuJ7U+4jWF1+WUaJ8gDL69ThAsu7mGDBbm80P3vvUZ4fQM14NkxOnuGRrJxO qjWNJ2ZUxgyHAh5TCxMLKWZoL5hpnvx3dF3Ti9HW2dsUUWICSQARAQABtDJQaGlsaXBwZSBN YXRoaWV1LURhdWTDqSAoUGhpbCkgPHBoaWxtZEByZWRoYXQuY29tPokCVQQTAQgAPwIbDwYL CQgHAwIGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AWIQSJweePYB7obIZ0lcuio/1u3q3A3gUCXsfWwAUJ KtymWgAKCRCio/1u3q3A3ircD/9Vjh3aFNJ3uF3hddeoFg1H038wZr/xi8/rX27M1Vj2j9VH 0B8Olp4KUQw/hyO6kUxqkoojmzRpmzvlpZ0cUiZJo2bQIWnvScyHxFCv33kHe+YEIqoJlaQc JfKYlbCoubz+02E2A6bFD9+BvCY0LBbEj5POwyKGiDMjHKCGuzSuDRbCn0Mz4kCa7nFMF5Jv piC+JemRdiBd6102ThqgIsyGEBXuf1sy0QIVyXgaqr9O2b/0VoXpQId7yY7OJuYYxs7kQoXI 6WzSMpmuXGkmfxOgbc/L6YbzB0JOriX0iRClxu4dEUg8Bs2pNnr6huY2Ft+qb41RzCJvvMyu gS32LfN0bTZ6Qm2A8ayMtUQgnwZDSO23OKgQWZVglGliY3ezHZ6lVwC24Vjkmq/2yBSLakZE 6DZUjZzCW1nvtRK05ebyK6tofRsx8xB8pL/kcBb9nCuh70aLR+5cmE41X4O+MVJbwfP5s/RW 9BFSL3qgXuXso/3XuWTQjJJGgKhB6xXjMmb1J4q/h5IuVV4juv1Fem9sfmyrh+Wi5V1IzKI7 RPJ3KVb937eBgSENk53P0gUorwzUcO+ASEo3Z1cBKkJSPigDbeEjVfXQMzNt0oDRzpQqH2vp apo2jHnidWt8BsckuWZpxcZ9+/9obQ55DyVQHGiTN39hkETy3Emdnz1JVHTU0Q== Message-ID: <16f1e661-edaa-2ee2-008d-3c9ad0e5e10d@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:26:57 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87o8o6pwwm.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Content-Language: en-US Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=philmd@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.139.110.120; envelope-from=philmd@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-1.mimecast.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/23 06:04:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -40 X-Spam_score: -4.1 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Kevin Wolf , Peter Maydell , Jason Wang , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 7/23/20 8:28 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Alex Bennée writes: > >> Kevin Wolf writes: >> >>> Am 21.07.2020 um 17:56 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben: >>>> It is not helpful if everybody sends their pullrequests late >>>> on the Tuesday afternoon, as there just isn't enough time in the >>>> day to merge test and apply them all before I have to cut the tag. >>>> Please, if you can, try to send pullrequests earlier, eg Monday. >>> >> >>> >>> So given that we _will_ have some late patches, what can we do to >>> improve the situation? >>> >>> Maybe I could send the pull request before testing it to save some time. >>> Your tests will take a while anyway, so if my own testing fails (e.g. >>> for the parts of iotests that you don't test), I would still have time >>> to NACK my own pull request. This wouldn't buy us more than an hour at >>> most and could lead to wasted testing effort on your side (which is >>> exactly the resource we want to save). >>> >>> Can you test multiple pull requests at once? The Tuesday ones tend to be >>> small (between 1 and 3 patches was what I saw yesterday), so they should >>> be much less likely to fail than large pull requests. If you test two >>> pull requests together and it fails so you have to retest one of them in >>> isolation, you still haven't really lost time compared to testing both >>> individually. And if it succeeds, you cut the testing time in half. >> >> I've taken to just stacking up patches from my multiple trees to avoid >> sending more than one PR a week. Of course sometimes the stack grows a >> bit too tall and becomes unwieldy :-/ > > You're right, stacking unrelated smaller pull requests makes sense when > pulling all the pull requests in flight races with a deadline. I tend to disagree, since few patches from the "candidate fixes for 5.1-rc1" series are still being discussed, and we are past rc1. Half of them could have been merged in for rc1.