[Piglit] [RFC] Piglit tags/releases

[Emil Velikov]

On 30/09/14 16:18, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On 09/29/2014 10:01 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> While I've been through the RELEASES document I believe it would be
>>> beneficial if we regularly create a tag("release"), that is to serve the
>>> following
>>>  - Human understandable format
>>> I.e. version 1.0.2 comes after 1.0.1, oh there is even date in there.
>>
>> See next point.
>>
>>>  - Something everyone can parse, unlike b33979a8f5c852fbffc072b0.
>>> When you don't have the tree at hand or don't know what git is.
>>
>> If either of these is the case, you have no business with piglit.
>>
>>>  - Ease distributions interested in packaging piglit.
>>
>> I don't see value in distributions packaging piglit.
>>
>>>  - Something for our QA and other non-developer teams to cling onto.
>>
>> I think this has actually back fired for us when we tried. Ian
>> probably remembers more.
> 
> I agree with Matt.  The one thing that seems useful is having a tag to
> mark the point in the piglit tree where a particular Mesa release was
> tested.  The main I didn't do that on previous Mesa releases is that I
> tested with my current work tree... which had a bunch of tests that
> weren't upstream.  That would have made the tag be on a SHA1 that didn't
> exist.
> 
> Anything beyond that feels like wasting time catering to the wrong set
> of users.
> 
I must be missing something here - Matt says it backfired, but you say
that you've not tagged your previous "mesa-xx-tested" because of local
changes. How are those two related ?

I'm not sure I see meaning behind such tag. Is your team (going to be)
using it as a reference point of sorts ?

Thanks
Emil