Trying to work with the tests

[Ian Kent]

On 24/4/24 17:47, Ian Kent wrote:
> On 23/4/24 18:34, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> On 2024/4/22 21:10, Ian Kent wrote:
>>> On 22/4/24 17:12, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>>
>>>> (+Cc Jingbo here).
>>>>
>>>> On 2024/4/22 16:31, Ian Kent wrote:
>>>>> I'm new to the list so Hi to all,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working with a heavily patched 5.14 kernel and I've gathered 
>>>>> together patches to bring erofs
>>>>>
>>>>> up to 5.19 and I'm trying to run the erofs and fscache tests from 
>>>>> a checkout of the 1.7.1 repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> (branch experimental-tests-fscache) and I have a couple of fails I 
>>>>> can't quite work out so I'm
>>>>>
>>>>> hoping for a little halp.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your interest and provide the detailed infos.
>>>>
>>>> I guess a modified 5.14 kernel may be originated from RHEL 9?
>>>
>>> Yes, that's right.
>>>
>>> I am working on improving erofs support in RHEL which of course goes 
>>> via CentOS Stream 9.
>>
>> BTW, could you submit the current patches to CentOS stream 9 mainline?
>> so I could review as well.
>
> CentOS Stream is meant to allow our development to be public so, yes, 
> I would like to do that.
>
>
> It will be interesting to see how it works, I'll have a look around 
> the CentOS web site to see if I can work
>
> out how it looks to external people.
>
>
> Timing is good too as I'm about to construct a merge request and our 
> process requires that to be against
>
> the CentOS Stream repo.
>
>
> That repository is located on GitLab ... so we'll need to work out how 
> to go about that.

Looking at the CentOS web page at 
https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/quickstart/

you would need a GitLab account to take part in the merge request review 
process.


If you wanted to take part in the case discussion as well you would need 
a Red Hat Issues

account (sign up https://issues.redhat.com/). This is only needed if you 
want to take part

in development/log bug reports, etc. since a Jira bug is required for 
each merge request.


As the Mandalorian would say, "this is the way".


If you don't wish to do this then I can post elsewhere, perhaps a 
kernel.org repo. but it gets

a bit harder if we work outside of the development process.


Ian