Public patches but non-public development branch

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Alex,


Am 05.04.22 um 15:14 schrieb Alex Deucher:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:02 AM Paul Menzel wrote:

>> Am 05.04.22 um 08:54 schrieb Christian König:
>>> Am 05.04.22 um 08:45 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>>
>>>> Am 04.04.22 um 23:42 schrieb Philip Yang:
>>>>> bo_adev is NULL for system memory mapping to GPU.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 05fe8eeca92 (drm/amdgpu: fix TLB flushing during eviction)
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, where can I find that commit?
>>>
>>> Well that's expected, the development branch is not public.
>>
>> Well obviously, it was unexpected for me. How should I have known? Where
>> is that documented? If the patches are publicly posted to the mailing
>> list, why is that development branch not public?
>>
>> The current situation is really frustrating for non-AMD employees. How
>> can the current situation be improved?
> 
> Our development branch
> (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/commits/amd-staging-drm-next)
> is available publicly.  There can be a day or so of lag depending on
> when it gets mirrored (e.g., over the weekend).

Thank you for the clarification. As can be seen at hand, it still causes 
confusion though.

     commit 05fe8eeca927e29b81f3f2a799e9b9b88b0989a9
     Author:     Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
     AuthorDate: Wed Mar 30 10:53:15 2022 +0200
     Commit:     Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
     CommitDate: Fri Apr 1 11:05:51 2022 +0200

Today is Tuesday, so it wasn’t mirrored yesterday, on Monday.

To avoid this friction in the future, is there an automated way to 
mirror the branches? git hooks should allow that to be done on every 
push for example.


Kind regards,

Paul