Re: KCIDB: Test schema enhancements

On 8/5/24 12:56 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Hello everyone (potentially) involved with sending data to KCIDB,
> 
> We've been working hard at KernelCI to bring you a bunch of exciting changes,
> to be presented at LPC in September, and in our news channels.
> 
> Meanwhile I'd like to propose two small, but potentially very useful changes
> to the I/O schema for tests:
> 
> * Supporting non-binary outputs beyond PASS/FAIL -
>   integers/floats/booleans/strings/etc. - useful for performance tests.
> 
> * Supporting recording `compatible` values from the top of the device tree
>   inside the test environment, for machines which use them - useful for
>   correlating test results by hardware.
> 
> Here's the corresponding schema PR:
> 
>     https://github.com/kernelci/kcidb-io/pull/85
> 
> I'll follow up with a separate message for each of the changes, going over the
> details and the rationale.
> 
> Feel free to reply to this or the other messages and leave comments in the PR!

If there are no objections by that time, I would like to merge this next
Monday, Aug 12, and start working on the rest of the support for these
enhancements.

Don't hesitate to object to *that*, if you feel it's too fast!

Nick