Re: Media committers model postponed to 6.14 - Was: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Document the new media-committer's model

[Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>]

On 09/12/2024 09:15, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Tue, 3 Dec 2024 14:07:12 +0100
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> escreveu:
> 
>>
>> The idea is to gradually open media-committers to more people, as each
>> phase succeeds, addressing infra, procedures, etc.
>>
>> My rough idea is to do:
>>
>> - Phase 0.99: beta testers;
>> - Phase 1 is to invite people that regularly submit PRs;
>> - Phase 2 is to invite other active maintainers;
>> - Phase 3 (or 2?, TBD) to open for non-maintainers.
>>
>> We shouldn't rush it, as there are a lot to be done before opening it
>> broadly. So, I would say that:
>> - phase 0.99 would start in -rc2 (if things go well during this week); 
>> - phase 1 may still happen on this merge window, but as there will be
>>   only a few weeks between -rc2 and -rc6, and people usually get
>>   holidays in Dec/Jan, it is more likely that it will start for
>>   6.14-rc1, again if we didn't notice big issues on phase 0.99.
>>
>>   We should wait at least for a couple of releases on phase 1,
>>   again to cleanup process and fine-tune infra. If things go well, 
>>   we can move to phase 2.
> 
> After some discussions with Hans, we decided to postpone the
> beta testers phase to the next kernel cycle. There are a couple of
> reasons for that:
> 
> - This should give us more time to come up with a final version of 
>   the media-committers documentation and agreement;

Where are we with this? I haven't seen any updates since this post.

Personally, I think the CI is ready for more committers, so it would be
nice if we can get some experience with that.

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> - This would also work better with regards to end of year's vacations,
>   as they'll be affecting at least 2/3 -rc versions. Plus, we all have
>   things to finish before such vacations. So, better to start fresh next
>   year;
> 
> - Media CI still had issues with a patch series I submitted, as it picked
>   the wrong baseline, causing CI to not test two patches that were
>   applied on the top of media-committers/next branch. This was fixed
>   by Ricardo, but it means that we may still need to polish CI before
>   granting more people righs there.
> 
> With that, if we want to start the media committers for 6.14, we should
> aim to close review this document by -rc6, or, at most, -rc7, getting 
> the patches merged during the next merge window.
> 
> Regard
> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro
>