RE: [RFC] MAINTAINERS: split kselftest entry into 'framework' and 'all'

["Bird, Tim" <Tim.Bird@sony.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> The testing effort is increasing throughout the community.
> The tests are generally merged into the subsystem trees,
> and are of relatively narrow interest. The patch volume on
> linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org makes it hard to follow
> the changes to the framework, and discuss proposals.
> 
> Create a new ML for "all" of kselftests (tests and framework),
> replacing the old list. Use the old list for framework changes
> only. It would cause less churn to create a ML for just the
> framework, but I prefer to use the shorter name for the list
> which has much more practical use.

I'm not a fan of this split.

The approach taken seems like it would create a lot of churn.
You have 2 kinds of developers - a) developers of the framework
and b) developers of the tests themselves.  Are you trying to shield
framework developers from discussions about tests, or test developers
from discussions about the framework?  It seems like framework developers
would be interested in seeing discussions about tests, and vice-versa.

I'm not sure a new list is needed, but if the discussion needs to be split,
I think it would be better to  create a new list for framework-only
discussions, and leave the old list handling all (both framework and tests).

Like maybe have the new list be something like "linux-kselftest-core@vger.kernel.org"?
 -- Tim

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> ---
> Posting as an RFC because we need to create the new ML.
> 
> CC: shuah@kernel.org
> CC: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
> CC: workflows@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index c27f3190737f..9a03dc1c8974 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -12401,6 +12401,18 @@ S:	Maintained
>  Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kselftest/list/
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git
>  F:	Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest*
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/lib/
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/*.sh
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/*.h
> +
> +KERNEL SELFTEST TESTS
> +M:	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
> +M:	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> +L:	linux-kselftest-all@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Maintained
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/
> 
>  KERNEL SMB3 SERVER (KSMBD)
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