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Message-ID: <20230720143746.1adb159a@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:37:46 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
Cc:     corbet@....net, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux@...mhuis.info, kvalo@...nel.org,
        benjamin.poirier@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v3] docs: maintainer: document expectations of
 small time maintainers

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:15:26 +0100 Conor Dooley wrote:
> ..I noticed that none of these sections address actually testing the
> code they're responsible for on a (semi-)regular basis. Sure, that comes
> as part of reviewing the patches for their code, but changes to other
> subsystems that a driver/feature maintainer probably would not have been
> CCed on may cause problems for the code they maintain.
> If we are adding a doc about best-practice for maintainers, I think we
> should be encouraging people to test regularly.

I think our testing story is too shaky to make that a requirement.
Differently put - I was never able to get good upstream testing running
when I worked for a vendor myself so I wouldn't know how to draw 
the lines.

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