From: SZEDER Gábor Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:02:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccicheck: introduce 'pending' semantic patches Message-ID: <20181113160252.GF30222@szeder.dev> In-Reply-To: <20181110001052.101290-1-sbeller@google.com> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote: > From: SZEDER Gábor > > Teach `make coccicheck` to avoid patches named "*.pending.cocci" and > handle them separately in a new `make coccicheck-pending` instead. > This means that we can separate "critical" patches from "FYI" patches. > The former target can continue causing Travis to fail its static > analysis job, while the latter can let us keep an eye on ongoing > (pending) transitions without them causing too much fallout. > > Document the intended use-cases around these two targets. > As the process around the pending patches is not yet fully explored, > leave that out. > > Based-on-work-by: SZEDER Gábor Hm, do I need to sign off? Well, I sign off now anyway, and then Junio can take it if necessary or just ignore it if not. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano > --- > > I dialed back on the workflow, as we may want to explore it first > before writing it down. Yeah, I too think that's better to wait with the workflow details until we gather some experience about how it works out in practice. Thanks for following it through.