Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> 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. > <snip> > > 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 :-/ > > Kevin -- Alex Bennée
