[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Bug-introducing patches

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:53:29 -0400
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> > Why not do what I do and push to a -pre-next branch when you kick off
> > your local tests?  
> 
> Because there's no point.  As I said, when we complete the local
> criteria the branch is ready for integration.  We push to -next and
> *all* the built bots tell us if there are any problems (which I don't
> expect there are but there's room for me to be wrong) ... including
> 0day.  I don't see what the delay and the process hassle would buy us
> if we only get a review by 0day in the -pre-next branch.  It seems more
> efficient to let every bot loose on what we think is mergeable.

Stephen,

If a bot discovers a new failure in linux-next, do you look to see
which tree caused it? And then create a new linux-next without that
tree?

If not, then perhaps we should do so.

-- Steve