Re: Crediting test authors

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:37:13AM -0700, dan.j.williams@intel.com wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> > So a tag would be ideal. But it's a hard nut to crack. Best I can come
> > up with would be:

> > Reproducer: test.case.path # 001122aabb (optimal) commit of the test case

> That's true, more than a few times I have had distro folks reach out to
> ask "how do I verify this backport" and end up manually pointing to the
> new unit test that backstops a fix.

> Although, from that tag I would not know where to get the commit. Maybe:
> 
> Test: <git url>
> 
> ...as a new Link: type?

It seems like there's some overlap here with the work that people have
been intermittently trying to do on test cataloging, eg:

   https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/CAK18DXYitS7hL1mA3QsPLmW9-R0q6Kin0C5Uv9fj=uS90WSnxA@mail.gmail.com/

That's been approached more from the "what tests should I run?" end of
things since it's been driven by people interested in testing and CI,
but it feels like there's a lot of overlap with the describing the
suites part of things.  It'd be a lot easier to write and read tags like
the above if we could define some more compact names than git URLs for
suites/tests.

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