Re: [RFC PATCH v2 02/10] MAINTAINERS: Introduce V: entry for tests

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 02:45, Nikolai Kondrashov
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Introduce a new 'V:' ("Verify") entry to MAINTAINERS. The entry accepts
> a test suite command which is proposed to be executed for each
> contribution to the subsystem.
>
> Extend scripts/get_maintainer.pl to support retrieving the V: entries
> when '--test' option is specified.
>
> Require the entry values to not contain the '@' character, so they could
> be distinguished from emails (always) output by get_maintainer.pl. Make
> scripts/checkpatch.pl check that they don't.
>
> Update entry ordering in both scripts/checkpatch.pl and
> scripts/parse-maintainers.pl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kondrashov <[email protected]>
> ---

I'm pretty happy with this personally, though I definitely think we
need the support for tests which aren't just executable scripts (e.g.
the docs in patch 6).

The get_maintailer.pl bits, and hence the requirement to not include
'@', feel a little bit 'off': I'd rather get_maintainer.pl kept emails
and tests separate by some other means (either having --test _only_
print tests, not emails at all, or by giving them a prefix like
'TEST:' or something). But that is diverging more from the existing
behaviour of get_maintainer.pl, so I could go either way.

Otherwise, this looks pretty good. I'll give it a proper test tomorrow
alongside the other patches.

Cheers,
-- David